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Answer for the clue "(cosmology) the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements ", 4 letters:
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n. (cosmology) the original matter that (according to the big bang theory) existed before the formation of the chemical elements

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Ylem is a term that was used by George Gamow , Ralph Alpher , and their associates in the late 1940s for a hypothetical original substance or condensed state of matter, which became subatomic particles and elements as we understand them today. The term ...

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Initially there was a substance -- call it Ylem, the Proto-atom, whatever -- that exploded and gave rise to matter and energy, stellar clouds, spiral galaxies, and dark and bright nebulae, all floating in rarefied gas filled with radiation.

According to this Sacred Physics book, the Big Bang Story that broke open the cosmic ylem egg showered out the Beings along with all the quarks and tachyons and all the rest of them.

The Beings came from a kind of impurity in the ylem, a sort of aesthetic flaw in the original story.

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Suddenly space-time seethed with stripped atoms, and then with the primordial flux of neutrons, the ylem.