Categories: Comparisons
An example of a simile used to explain a scientific idea:
"CDM particles tend to clump together and produce gravitational 'potholes', which attract baryonic material (hydrogen and helium gas) by their gravity.'
John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. (Ed., Mary Gribbin) Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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