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That is from Crash Course Astronomy. The sentence it was used in is at 5:41. Here it goes:

Then at T+20 minutes the universe cooled enough that fusion stopped.

I have looked it up in the internet, and what appeared is that it is an abbreviation meaning to think positive, but I cannot make head or tail of the sentence with this definition.

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You use T minus [time] to denote a countdown to the time an event occurs. You use T plus [time] to track the elapsed time since that event. This is language you might hear in a technical setting. Wikipedia gives the example of a rocket launch:

After a launch, most countdown clocks begin to show Mission Elapsed Time, which is typically shown as "T plus." The picture to the right shows "+ 00:00:07", approximately seven seconds after liftoff.
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In the video, the man is explaining the events that occurred after the Big Bang. He called the time of the Big Bang "time zero". At T plus twenty minutes , he means twenty minutes after the Big Bang.

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Basically, T = time of some event

In the video 'T' is the instant the "Big Bang" began. So T+20minutes is 20 minutes after the initial start of the event.

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