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Investigator: Dr. Ranjit Pati
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Animator: Dr. Susan E. Hill

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In 1976 Tom Kibble theorized that as the universe cooled after the Big Bang, various flaws would have formed cosmic strings, long thin bundles of the original energy of the universe that would persist even today.