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primordial

[prahy-mawr-dee-uhl] / praɪˈmɔr di əl /


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To achieve their new level of precision, the team departed from the conventional method of estimating primordial helium.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Although cosmic expansion and the microwave background have been studied extensively, measurements of primordial helium have historically received less attention.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026

Once he’s managed to hurl himself past the surf to rest atop an underwater cliff, the darkness below is as scary as if we’d regressed into primordial prey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Now we see the plasma is incredibly dense, such that it is able to slow down a quark, and produces splashes and swirls like a liquid. So quark-gluon plasma really is a primordial soup."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

But even if we cannot harness the emission from these primordial black holes, what are our chances of observing them?

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking


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