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Gamow may have appropriated it, but the term was originally coined by Aristotle to describe "what was there before everything", the primary substance gathering mass and energy altogether, which gave birth to the universe. Of course the Big Bang theory wasn't around then, but the Greek philosopher supposed there was "something prior" to our world. (anonymous reader)