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An example of a metaphor used to explain a scientific idea:
"As the HDM [hot dark matter] particles cooled and [sic] slowed down, baryonic matter would be left spread in great pancakes across the Universe, and these would break up as a result of gravitational instability, forming galaxies from the fragments in a 'top-down' process."
John Gribbin (1996) Companion to the Cosmos. (Ed., Mary Gribbin) Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
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