A related concept is the perfect fluid equation of state used in cosmology.

In the game's cosmology humans can regain their lost divine status through a game concept called Awakening in which characters with an extremely high or low mental balance are no longer restrained by the rules of the Illusion.

Animism was also a concept common to many pre-Christian European religions, and in adopting it, contemporary Pagans are attempting to " reenter the primeval worldview " and participate in a view of cosmology " that is not possible for most Westerners after childhood.

:*" nature-based ": Pagan religions have a concept of the divinity of Nature, which they view as a manifestation of the divine, not as the " fallen " creation found in Dualistic cosmology.

The understanding of the Maya that resulted in the use of the 2011 date and the use of the " worlds " concept is due to the influence of Frank Waters's 1975 book Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness, whose elaborate cosmology is selectively utilized in the framework of the Shadowrun universe.

One possible consequence of ideas drawn from M-theory is that multiple universes in the form of 3-dimensional membranes known as branes could exist side-by-side in a fourth large spatial dimension ( which is distinct from the concept of time as a fourth dimension )-see Brane cosmology.

In this period too the older three-level cosmology was widely replaced by the Greek concept of a spherical earth suspended in space at the centre of a number of concentric heavens.

Mormon cosmology teaches the existence of other " gods " such as is exhibited in the concept of the Godhead being three, separate, distinct beings.

However for those cultures that have a cyclic cosmology, the concept of a progressive deterioration of the universe ( as in the Hesiodic, Hindu, and Lurianic cosmologies of a degradation from a Golden Age to an Iron Age or Kali Yuga ) might be balanced by a corresponding ascent to more spiritual stages and a return to paradisical conditions.

# A translation of the word " hell " that matches the pre-existing Chinese concept of " underground hold / court ," which in Taoist cosmology had been considered the initial destination of the soul of the dead regardless of his or her virtue during life.

Stephen Hawking's concept " arrow of time ", for example, discuss cosmology as proceeding up to a certain point, after which it undergoes a time reversal ( which, as a consequence of T-symmetry, is thought to bring about a chaotic state due to entropy ).

The concept of coupling is particularly important in physical cosmology, in which various forms of matter gradually decouple and recouple between each other.

In this cosmology, there are seven cosmic planes, three lower, corresponding to relative existence ( the Physical, Vital, and Mental ), and four higher, representing infinite divine reality ( Life Divine bk. 1 ch. 27 ) The Aurobindonian Mind or Mental Plane constitutes a large zone of being from the mental vital to the overmental divine region ( Letters on Yoga, Jyoti and Prem Sobel 1984 ), but as with the later Theosophical concept it constitutes an objective reality of pure mind or pure thought.

Open quantum systems are an important concept in quantum optics, quantum measurement theory, quantum statistical mechanics, quantum information science, quantum cosmology and semiclassical approximations.

Collectively the concept of eight side chambers not only offers passage for circumambulation of the main cenotaph, a practice common in Sufism and also visible in many Mughal imperial mausoleums, it also the reflect the concept of Paradise in Islamic cosmology.

A more contemporary distinction between religion and philosophy, esoteric cosmology is distinguished from religion in its less tradition-bound construction and reliance on modern " intellectual understanding " rather than faith, and from philosophy in its emphasis on spirituality as a formative concept.

In this cosmology, there are seven cosmic planes, three lower, corresponding to relative existence ( the Physical, Vital, and Mental ), and four higher, representing infinite divine reality ( Life Divine bk. 1 ch. 27 ) The Aurobindonian Mind or Mental Plane constitutes a large zone of being from the mental vital to the overmental divine region ( Letters on Yoga, Jyoti and Prem Sobel 1984 ), but as with the later Theosophical concept it constitutes an objective reality of pure mind or pure thought.

" This was the first 11th century Chinese text to argue for the inseparability of metaphysics ( or cosmology ) and ethics, as well as the first major Chinese text to explore the concept of the taijitu or " yin-yang symbol ".

Only in Hellenistic times ( after c. 330 BCE ) was the older three-level cosmology widely replaced by the Greek concept of a spherical earth suspended in space at the centre of a number of concentric heavens.

There, he received a Zafimamy education and culture, which probably included Indonesian, Indo-Aryan and Arabic forms of knowledge, including cosmology, astronomy and the Arabic-based sorabe script, as well as Malagasy mythology such as the myth of Ibonia, an origin myth that communicates the Malay-Javanese concept of Andriambahoaka afovoanitany (" A King must be at the center of his territory ").

The idea of a unified spacetime is stated by Edgar Allan Poe in his essay on cosmology titled Eureka ( 1848 ) that " Space and duration are one.

Cosmologists normally work with a given space-like slice of spacetime called the comoving coordinates, the existence of a preferred set of which is possible and widely accepted in present-day physical cosmology.

It is an examination of the very nature of matter and reality, covering such topics as spacetime and cosmology, origins and unification, and including an exploration into reality and the imagination.

* Texture ( cosmology ), theoretical topological defect in the structure of spacetime

Davies ' inquiries have included theoretical physics, cosmology, and astrobiology ; his research has been mainly in the area of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.

** the spacetime Curvature from the Friedmann equations in cosmology

The dance combines many aspects including Sinhalese cosmology, the dances also has an impact on the classical dances of Sri Lanka.

Turner helped establish the interdisciplinary field that combines together cosmology and elementary particle physics to understand the origin and evolution of the Universe.

Kabbalah combines orthodox Judaic, Neoplatonic, Gnostic, and philosophical ( e. g. Aristotlean ) themes, to develop an elaborate and highly symbolic cosmology in which God, who is ineffable and unknowable, manifests as ten archetypal sephirot, each with its own Divine attributes, and arranged in a configuration of interrelated paths called the Tree of Life.

One proposed timeline of the origin of space, from physical cosmology.

In physical cosmology, the cosmological constant ( usually denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda: Λ ) is equivalent to an energy density in otherwise empty space.

Hubble's law or Lemaître's law is the name for the astronomical observation in physical cosmology that: ( 1 ) all objects observed in deep space ( intergalactic space ) are found to have a doppler shift observable relative velocity to Earth, and to each other ; and ( 2 ) that this doppler-shift-measured velocity, of various galaxies receding from the Earth, is proportional to their distance from the Earth and all other interstellar bodies.

* Physical cosmology: space, time, and the origin and ultimate fate of the universe ;

* In brane cosmology and M-theory, the bulk is a hypothetical higher dimensional space within which the eleven dimensions of our universe ( the three dimensions we can see, plus time, plus the seven extra dimensions that we can't see but M-theory theorizes are all around us ) may exist.

In physical cosmology, the Big Crunch is one possible scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe, in which the metric expansion of space eventually reverses and the universe recollapses, ultimately ending as a black hole singularity.

In 1965, Hannes Alfvén proposed a " plasma cosmology " theory of the universe based in part on scaling observations of space plasma physics and experiments on plasmas in terrestrial laboratories to cosmological scales orders-of-magnitude greater.

Like the steady state theory, plasma cosmology includes a Strong Cosmological Principle which assumes that the universe is isotropic in time as well as in space.

Currently, Greene studies string cosmology, especially the imprints of trans Planckian physics on the cosmic microwave background, and brane-gas cosmologies that could explain why the space around us has three large dimensions, expanding on the suggestion of a black hole electron, namely that the electron may be a black hole.

Major branches of natural philosophy include astronomy and cosmology, the study of nature on the grand scale ; etiology, the study of ( intrinsic and sometimes extrinsic ) causes ; the study of chance, probability and randomness ; the study of elements ; the study of the infinite and the unlimited ( virtual or actual ); the study of matter ; mechanics, the study of translation of motion and change ; the study of nature or the various sources of actions ; the study of natural qualities ; the study of physical quantities ; the study of relations between physical entities ; and the philosophy of space and time.

The centre has six main galleries of exhibits and visitor activities covering space flight, astronomy and cosmology.

Digges's original contribution to cosmology consisted of dismantling the starry sphere, and scattering the stars throughout endless space.

In 1871, Louis Auguste Blanqui, assuming a Newtonian cosmology where time and space are infinite proceeded to show that the eternal recurrence was a mathematical certainty.

His primary contribution is to cosmology, as he was one of the first physicists to suggest that most of the mass and energy of the universe resides in empty space, an idea now widely known as dark energy.

Fingers of God is an effect in observational cosmology that causes clusters of galaxies to be elongated in redshift space, with an axis of elongation pointed toward the observer.

The physical plane or physical universe, in emanationist metaphysics taught in Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Hinduism and Theosophy, refers to the visible reality of space and time, energy and matter: the physical universe in Occultism and esoteric cosmology is the lowest or densest of a series of planes of existence.

The Friedmann equations are a set of equations in physical cosmology that govern the expansion of space in homogeneous and isotropic models of the universe within the context of general relativity.

The book is thus a combined work in speculative cosmology and space colonization.

spacecraft design, nozzle theory, launch vehicle design, mission architecture, space stations, lunar exploration, space propulsion, advanced space propulsion, robotic exploration of the solar system, manned exploration of the solar system, interstellar travel, interstellar communications, extraterrestrial intelligence, philosophy and cosmology.

In the final chapter of the book he proposes a new cosmology that the earth is stationary in space and surrounded by a solid shell which is ( in the book's final words ) ".. not unthinkably far away.