Re: From NPR
I've seen this word used before in cosmology:
"y·lem - noun
primordial matter: hypothetical matter that, according to the big bang theory of the origin of the universe, was the substance from which the chemical elements were formed."
From what I've read it was more commonly used to mean something like the "egg" the universe "hatched" from. Of course the actual definition was given as well, to show the reason for it's use.
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