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pre-bangian en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + (big) bang + -ian. First attested in 1999.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) Pertaining to a hypothetical era before the Big Bang.
    • What was nothing like, how could it explode, and what came before it (for physicists now suggest there may have been a ‘pre-bangian’ universe)? 2011, Alison Morgan, The Word on the Wind: Renewing Confidence in the Gospel, →ISBN, page 248:
    • Perhaps the prebangian universe started to undergo a big crunch and turned around when the density got too high—a big bounce. 2010 September 1, George Musser, “The Paradox of Time: Why It Can't Stop, But Must”, in Scientific American:
    • There are several good examples of what we may call pre-bangian relics, relics from before the Big Bang: one is a stochastic background of gravitational waves, very much like the already mentioned electromagnetic background that fills up our Universe at a temperature of 2.7 degrees above absolute zero. 2009, Gabriele Veneziano, “Did Time Have a Beginning? A Meeting Point for Science and Philosophy”, in Ernesto Carafoli, Gian Antonio Danielli, Giuseppe O. Longo, editors, The Two Cultures: Shared Problems, →ISBN, page 10: