According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to the Big Bang model, the Universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today.

According to the Big Bang theory, the Universe was once in an extremely hot and dense state which expanded rapidly.

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

According to the argument, the existence of the Universe requires an explanation, and the creation of the Universe by a First Cause, generally assumed to be God, is that explanation.

According to Crowley in " Liber O ", success in this technique is signaled by physical exhaustion and " though only by the student himself is it perceived, when he hears the name of the God vehemently roared forth, as if by the concourse of ten thousand thunders ; and it should appear to him as if that Great Voice proceeded from the Universe, and not from himself.

According to the theory, as the Universe cooled after the big bang it eventually became possible for common subatomic particles as we know them ( neutrons, protons and electrons ) to exist.

Consequently, Baen also makes its entire catalog available in multiple formats for downloading and typically prices electronic versions of its books at or below that of paperback editions — and makes a profit doing it .</ span > According to essays on Baen's science fiction e-magazine Jim Baen's Universe, also edited by Flint, the strategy is if anything, getting stronger and more fruitful with the passage of time, especially with the advent of e-book readers such as the Amazon Kindle, and the Barnes & Noble Nook.

According to Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe # 6 ( 1985 ), Destiny is " the one being who has been able to resist Zeus ' unlimited powers.

Cosmic Liturgy: The Universe According to Maximus the Confessor.

According to the organizers, the Miss Universe contest is more than a beauty pageant: women aspiring to become Miss Universe must be intelligent, well-mannered, and cultured.

According to this argument, since this has always been the case there must always have been a Universe – i. e. the Universe is without beginning or end.

According to Aleister Crowley's instructions for the A ∴ A ∴, the pentacle is a disc of wax, gold, silver-gilt or Electrum Magicum, eight inches diameter and half an inch thick ; the Neophyte should " by his understanding and ingenium devise a symbol to represent the Universe ", and engrave this on the disc.

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Universe has an infinite area ( as far as anyone can make out ), no imports whatsoever ( because the Universe has no outside from which to import anything ), exports ( ditto ), art ( because " the function of art is to hold a mirror up to nature, and there simply isn't a mirror big enough "), or population ( because its population, by definition, must be finite, and the number of planets is infinite, as there is infinite space to put them in ; not all planets are inhabited, and any finite number divided by infinity is zero, or as near to it as makes no odds ), or sex ( well, there is an awful lot of this, largely because of the total lack of anything else that might keep the non-existent people of the universe occupied ).

According to Michael Darling, female manga artists who draw lolicon material include Chiho Aoshima ( The red-eyed tribe billboard ), Aya Takano ( Universe Dream wall painting ).

* According to the Fallout Universe the United Nations have been disbanded on July 26th of this year.

According to his Monadology, all things that humans ordinarily understand as interactions between and relations among individuals ( such as their relative positions in space and time ) have their being in the mind of God but not in the Universe where we perceive them to be.

According to Gribbin and Rees, carbon-based life was not haphazardly arrived at, but the deliberate end of a Universe " tailor-made for man.

According to their theory, it is inevitable that we find our Universe's " fine-tuned " physical constants, as the current Universe " selects " only those past histories that led to the present conditions.

According to his book Mastering the Universe: He-Man and the Rise and Fall of a Billion-Dollar Idea published in 2005, Sweet knew that if he gave marketing something they could sell, he'd won 90 % of the battle.

According to economist Eduard Aghajanov, Armenia could have repaid them with low-interest loans from other, presumably Western sources, or with some of its hard currency reserves which then totaled about $ 450 million.

According to a controversial tradition reported by several medieval sources, Narses, out of spite for having been removed by Justinian's successor Justin II, called the Lombards to Italy.

According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of the Nord Angelnen ( Northumbria ), Ost Angelnen ( East Anglia ), and the Mittlere Angelnen ( Mercia ).

According to some sources, the emir himself was behind Muhammad's fall, as well as Al-Mutarrif's death in 895.

According to some sources, Clinton was in his early years a death penalty opponent who switched positions.

According to some Mahāyāna sources a bodhisattva is someone on the path to full Buddhahood.

According to classical rabbinical sources, Benjamin was only born after Rachel had fasted for a long time, as a religious devotion with the hope of a new child as a reward.

According to contemporaneous sources the Mariner had a history of explosions due to vapour leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as for a potentially long search and rescue operation.

According to the majority of sources ( see section Current views on Central Europe for some ) the region includes:

According to some sources, Mohéli did return to government control in 1998.

According to the sources, Constans began his reign in an energetic fashion.

According to various sources, Chiang's first personal act of violence occurred around this time, when he either instigated or performed the assassination of a dissident member of the Revolutionary Alliance who opposed both Sun Yat-sen and Chen Qimei.

According to Christian sources, the Jews of Alexandria schemed against the Christians and killed many of them ; Cyril reacted and expelled either all of the Jews, or else only the murderers, from Alexandria, actually exerting a power that belonged to the civil officer, Orestes.

According to sources claiming to have tested the 1 / 3 more yarn assertion, a single crochet stitch ( sc ) uses approximately the same amount of yarn as a knit stitch.

According to some sources, he received the principality of Mellenburg in exchange.

According to earlier sources, Dobrawa urged her husband Mieszko I of Poland to accept baptism in 966, the year after their marriage.

According to both sources, he sent Yamatotakeru to Izumo province and eastern provinces to conquer the area and spread his territory.

According to traditional sources, Yamato Takeru died in the 43rd year of Emperor Keiko's reign ( 景行天皇43年 ).

According to very scanty information from the Imperial archives, including sources such as Rikkokushi, and Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku, Emperor Yōzei murdered one of his retainers, an action that caused massive scandal in the Heian court.

According to some sources, Sarkozy himself asked for Uribe to release FARC's " chancellor " Rodrigo Granda.

:" According to sources in today ’ s Tibetan resistance, the Chinese Communist " fatwā " to silence Patterson has never been rescinded.

According to sources ( excluding land warfare casualties ):

According to some sources, genealogy is one of the most popular topics on the Internet.

:( According to George Hills, there are no primary sources that could explain whether such a demolition was requested or authorized by any Spanish or British authority.