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Annex 1: Abbreviations

AGN: Active galactic nucleus

AGB: Asymptotic Giant Branch stars

BEC: Bose-Einstein condensate

BKL: Belinsky-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz singularity

CDM: Cold dark matter

CDT: Causal dynamical triangulation

CFT: Conformal field theory

CMB: Cosmic microwave background radiation

CMD: Colour-Magnitude diagram

CPT: It is a fundamental symmetry that involves charge, parity and time simultaneously.

EPR: Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (paradox)

FLRW: Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker metric

FTL: Faster-than-light

GRB: Gamma ray bursts

GSO: Geosynchronous orbit


GUT: Grand Unified Theory

HRD: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

H-R-D: Hertzsprung-Russell diagram

IMBH: Intermediate-mass black hole

LMC: Large Magellanic Cloud

LSP: Lightest Supersymmetric Particle

MU: Mirror Universe

MVI: Many-worlds interpretation

PNGB: Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons

QCD: Quantum chromodynamics

QED: Quantum electrodynamics

QFT: Quantum field theory

RGB: Red Giant Branch stars

S: Scattering matrix

SUSY: Supersymmetry

UFT: Unified field theory

WR: Wolf-Rayet stars