PBS Space Time
Are Cosmic Strings Cracks in the Universe?
2022 • E5 Feb 22, 2022 16m
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.
