primordial soup
noun
: a mixture of organic molecules in evolutionary theory from which life on earth originated
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But this seething primordial soup—the stuff of future galaxies, stars, planets and people—only lasted a few microseconds.
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
This primordial soup was composed of a plasma of particles called quarks and gluons that rapidly cooled, causing these two types of particles to fuse and create fundamental particles like protons and neutrons, which today sit at the heart of all atoms that make up the matter all around us.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
The Grateful Dead were the soundtrack of that era and were born of this primordial soup.
—Brian Halligan, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
The most exciting — and controversial — possibility dates back to a 1971 proposal from the British physicist Stephen Hawking: that black holes arose in the primordial soup of the Big Bang itself.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
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Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
This primordial soup was composed of a plasma of particles called quarks and gluons that rapidly cooled, causing these two types of particles to fuse and create fundamental particles like protons and neutrons, which today sit at the heart of all atoms that make up the matter all around us.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 Jan. 2026
The Grateful Dead were the soundtrack of that era and were born of this primordial soup.
—Brian Halligan, Fortune, 25 Nov. 2025
The most exciting — and controversial — possibility dates back to a 1971 proposal from the British physicist Stephen Hawking: that black holes arose in the primordial soup of the Big Bang itself.
—Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
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“Primordial soup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/primordial%20soup. Accessed 19 Feb. 2026.
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