Word: cosmically
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Meteorologists attributed the abnormally high tides to an unusual cosmic dance. The combination of factors included syzygy (pronounced syz-uhjee), a twice-monthly condition in which the earth, sun and moon are most closely in alignment; perigee, when the moon is closest to the earth in its monthly orbit; perihelion, when the earth is at its shortest distance from the sun; and the tidal bulge caused by the moon when it reaches the southernmost point in its orbit...
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While the theory looks promising, Ostriker shows proper scientific restraint. "We still don't know that there are such things as cosmic strings," he says, "or that they are necessarily superconductors or will in fact carry large currents. But all these things are quite possible. Within a few years, superconducting strings will have either transformed our view of the large-scale universe -- or be entirely forgotten...
...only the large-scale structure of the universe but also the origin of galaxies and other puzzling celestial phenomena. It combines some of the most advanced ideas in astrophysics and elementary-particle physics, and joins the independent research of Ostriker and Physicist Edward Witten. The unifying element: the cosmic strings -- bizarre, hypothetical entities that are thinner than an atomic nucleus, as long as the universe is wide, and so dense that a mile-long segment would weigh as much as the earth...
...Edward Witten, who was studying the properties of cosmic strings. "I was looking at ways you might be able to observe these very thin objects at cosmological distances," he recalls, "and I discovered that they could be superconductors -- they would conduct electric current forever." If that was true, he figured, electric currents as large as 100 quintillion (100 followed by 18 zeros) amperes could be induced in the strings. These currents could in turn produce intense magnetic fields around the strings, and particles, like electrons, caught in the fields would glow. In fact, a radio- telescope image of the center...