big bang theory

Definitions of big bang theory
  1. 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
    synonyms: big-bang theory
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    scientific theory
    a theory that explains scientific observations
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