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Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?

PBS Space Time

Season 2022Episode 5Aired 2022-02-23
Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?

Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?

Reality has cracks in it. Universe-spanning filaments of ancient Big Bang energy, formed from topological defects in the quantum fields, aka cosmic strings. They have subatomic thickness but prodigious mass and they lash through space at a close to the speed of light. They could be the most bizarre undiscovered entities that actually exist.