it is Astarte, Ishtar, Venus, Yahwe, Dionysus, Christ, the mysterious and divine orgone energy flowing through the body of the universe.

it is a mystique, and their private language is rich in the multivalent ambiguities of sexual reference so that they dwell in a sexualized universe of discourse.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

Because God is what He is, the laws of the universe, material and spiritual, are what they are.

In the face of the unfolding universe, our ultimate attitude is that of wonder.

It is this larger theme of the `` quality of man '', a quality that transcends the ideological and flows into `` the human '', which now forms the pulsating heart of Malraux's artistic universe.

Related to this is the fact that most of the higher religions define for the individual his place in the universe and give him a feeling that he is relatively secure in an ordered, dependable universe.

The universe is a safe and permanent home.

A Tiepolo painting, however confabulated, is a universe of tensions in vast depths.

This conclusion is based on two propositions: that man by the use of his reason can ascertain God's purpose in the universe and that God makes known His purpose by certain `` given '' physical arrangements.

Science is placing in our hands the ultimate power of the universe, the power of the atom.

We are looking inside the atom and seeing there a universe which is not material but something beyond the material, a universe that in a word is not matter but music.

and since the universe is also made of atoms, it is just a supermachine.

And this would mean that we live in a mechanistic universe, governed by the laws of cause and effect, bound in chains of determinism that hold the universe on a completely predetermined course in which there is not room for soul or spirit or human freedom.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

This complacency was blown to bits by the relativity of Einstein, the revelation of the complex anatomy of the atom and the discovery of the expanding universe.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

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 ''.

It is the business of cosmologists, the scientists who study the nature and structure of the universe, to try to solve the great cosmic mysteries by using keys that have clicked open other doors.

First of all, and this has been calculated by observation, the universe is expanding -- that is, the galaxies are receding from each other at immense speeds.

Because of this Dr. Bonnor holds that the universe is becoming more thinly populated by stars and whatever else is there.

Assuming ZF is consistent, Kurt Gödel showed that the negation of the axiom of choice is not a theorem of ZF by constructing an inner model ( the constructible universe ) which satisfies ZFC and thus showing that ZFC is consistent.

While there are ancient relations between the Indian Vedas and the Iranian Avesta, the two main families of the Indo-Iranian philosophical traditions were characterized by fundamental differences in their implications for the human being's position in society and their view on the role of man in the universe.

The Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game is a role-playing game created and written by Erick Wujcik, set in the fictional universe created by author Roger Zelazny for his Chronicles of Amber.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

In all the Stargate television series, characters are able to communicate instantaneously over long distances by transferring their consciousness into another person or being anywhere in the universe using " Ancient communication stones ".

The Timaeus begins with an introduction, followed by an account of the creations and structure of the universe and ancient civilizations.

* Aba ( Dune ), a type of robe in the fictional Dune universe created by Frank Herbert

In 1920, Thoralf Skolem simplified a previous result by Leopold Löwenheim, leading to the Löwenheim – Skolem theorem and, in 1930, to the notion of a Herbrand universe and a Herbrand interpretation that allowed ( un ) satisfiability of first-order formulas ( and hence the validity of a theorem ) to be reduced to ( potentially infinitely many ) propositional satisfiability problems.

Initial approaches relied on the results of Herbrand and Skolem to convert a first-order formula into successively larger sets of propositional formulae by instantiating variables with terms from the Herbrand universe.

He especially tried to explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe, being the first scientist to introduce two universes called " sheets ", linked by the Big Bang.

Hydrogen and helium are by far the most abundant elements in the universe.

Aluminum is also far more common in the Earth and Earth's crust than the universe and solar system, but the composition of Earth's mantle ( which has more magnesium and iron in place of aluminum ) more closely mirrors that of the universe, save for the noted loss of volatile elements.

The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light ... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me.

All these lines of evidence suggest that galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and the universe as a whole contain far more matter than that which interacts with electromagnetic radiation.

The argument above may not hold for the universe as a whole, since travel times may well explain the lack of physical presence on Earth of alien inhabitants of far away galaxies.

Even if such civilizations are rare, the scale argument indicates they should exist somewhere at some point during the history of the universe, and since they could be detected from far away over a considerable period of time, many more potential sites for their origin are within range of our observation.

This math implies that if the universe is stuffed with paper printed with 0s, it could contain only 5. 3 zeros — far short of a googol of zeros.

There are only about 3 cubic metres in the observable universe, giving about 7. 1 Planck spaces in the entire observable universe, so a googolplex is far larger than even the number of the smallest measurable spaces in the observable universe.

Indeed, the observable universe is far too small to contain an ordinary digital representation of Graham's number, assuming that each digit occupies at least one Planck volume.

These suspicions are later borne out in " Utopia " ( 2007 ), when the Tenth Doctor discovers that the renegade Time Lord the Master has survived the Time War and has been living in human form in the year 100 trillion, at the end of the material universe, a point so far forward in time that no Time Lord has ever travelled there.

They are the superpowers of the Shadowrun universe, with the largest corporations having far more political, economic, and military power than even the most powerful nation-states.

Notice that alone the number has 10 billion zeros when written down in decimal notation, and is already by far larger than the number of atoms in the observable universe.

In another extension, prominent physicists have gone so far as to suggest that astronomers observing dark energy in the universe in 1998 may have " reduced its life expectancy " through a pseudo-Schrödinger's Cat scenario, although this is a controversial viewpoint.

Every quark in the universe does not attract every other quark in the above distance independent manner, since colour-confinement implies that the strong force acts without distance-diminishment only between pairs of single quarks, and that in collections of bound quarks ( i. e., hadrons ), the net colour-charge of the quarks cancels out, as seen from far away.

Tellurium is far more common in the universe as a whole than it is on Earth.

He goes on to joke that far from being the perfect creation of a perfect designer, this universe may be " only the first rude essay of some infant deity ... the object of derision to his superiors ".

Eventually all galaxies beyond our own local supercluster will redshift so far that it will become hard to detect them, and the distant universe will turn dark.

The helium-4 abundance is important because there is far more helium-4 in the universe than can be explained by stellar nucleosynthesis.

This explanation is also consistent with calculations that show that a universe made mostly of protons and neutrons would be far more clumpy than is observed.

Positronium in high energy states has been predicted to be the dominant form of atomic matter in the universe in the far future, if proton decay is a reality.

His jihad has killed sixty billion people across the known universe, but according to his prescient vision, this is a fate far better than what he has seen.