cataclysmic theory

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• big bang theory — noun (cosmology) the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature • Syn: ↑big bang theory • Topics:… …   Useful english dictionary

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