Most of the superhumans in Marvel's Earth owe their powers to the Celestials, cosmic entities who visited Earth millions of years ago and experimented on our prehistoric ancestors ( a process they also carried out on several other planets ).

Above all pantheons of gods, mystical beings, and cosmic / conceptual entities there exists one, supreme " God ", a mysterious but apparently benign entity sometimes referred to as the One-Above-All.

However, certain cosmic entities, such as Galactus, In-Betweener, Maelstrom, or The Stranger have demonstrated personality, motivations, or ( except for the first mention ) even ambitions beyond their functions, but often maintain the perspective that morality is entirely relative, or that destroying civilisations of " lesser " beings is no more evil than if these beings destroyed an anthill.

The " Fulcrum " is a comparatively recent addition to the hierarchy, that " all " cosmic entities allegedly serve, of a level of raw power stated to far surpass the might of the Watchers and the Celestials.

Unlike most other entities it is capable of conscience, compassion, and even a sense of humour, and has stated that it wants other cosmic beings to develop such as well.

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Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Furthermore, even major heroes and cosmic entities have distinct vulnerabilities, such as: Superman's weaknesses to magic, kryptonite, and red sun light ; Green Lantern's initial problems with wood or the color yellow ( which have since been largely overcome ); or Batman's lack of superhuman powers, which he supplements with keen intellect, constant training, and specialized technology.

There are several types of cosmic entities, such as:

The story continues over the course of millennia, including flashbacks thousands and even millions of years into the past, and the scope widens to encompass other galaxies, extremely remote parts of space, parallel universes and weirder cosmic structures, time travel, paranormal powers, weird / cute / aggressive aliens and bodyless entities ( some with sheer god-like powers ).

Eternity is also summoned by a contingent of superhero team the Avengers to reason with the cosmic entities the Infinites, and observes the attempts of Thanos and several of Earth's heroes to defeat several of his clones, who are dedicated to destroying the universe, and in turn Eternity itself.

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Manipulating beliefs regarding the relationship between the Torch and the Vision have been a priority for Immortus due to the Vision's connections to the Scarlet Witch, a ' nexus being ' who may have been powerful enough to give birth to children who could threaten some of the most powerful cosmic entities in the universe ; disrupting the Witch's relationship with the Vision limited the possibility that she would pass on her potential.

The cosmic entities Lord Chaos and Master Order intervene, causing the gem to release Warlock's soul.

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Category: DC Comics cosmic entities

Thanos then goes on to defeat and imprison many of the universe's cosmic entities — including Galactus ; the Stranger ; the Titan Kronos ; Epoch ; the entities Love and Hate ; two Celestials ; Master Order and Lord Chaos ; and Eternity.

But a great many of what Variety calls the `` Cooch Terpers '' are considerably less cosmic than that.

Do societies develop according to cosmic patterns or are they subject only to the free choice of individuals??

These scientists are convinced that a telescope unclouded by the earth's gases will go a long way toward bolstering or destroying cosmic theories.

High-energy cosmic rays impacting Earth's atmosphere ( or any other matter in the Solar System ) produce minute quantities of antiparticles in the resulting particle jets, which are immediately annihilated by contact with nearby matter.

Antiparticles are produced naturally in beta decay, and in the interaction of cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere.

The core ideas of the Big Bang — the expansion, the early hot state, the formation of helium, and the formation of galaxies — are derived from many observations that are independent from any cosmological model ; these include the abundance of light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large scale structure, and the Hubble diagram for Type Ia supernovae.

The earliest and most direct kinds of observational evidence are the Hubble-type expansion seen in the redshifts of galaxies, the detailed measurements of the cosmic microwave background, the relative abundances of light elements produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis, and today also the large scale distribution and apparent evolution of galaxies predicted to occur due to gravitational growth of structure in the standard theory.

The cosmic censorship hypothesis rules out the formation of such singularities, when they are created through the gravitational collapse of realistic matter.

These problems are resolved by a brief period of cosmic inflation, which drives the universe to flatness, smooths out anisotropies and inhomogeneities to the observed level, and exponentially dilutes the monopoles.

The physical model behind cosmic inflation is extremely simple, however it has not yet been confirmed by particle physics, and there are difficult problems reconciling inflation and quantum field theory.

Both the problems of baryogenesis and cosmic inflation are very closely related to particle physics, and their resolution might come from high energy theory and experiment, rather than through observations of the universe.

Newer experiments, such as QUIET and the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, are trying to measure the polarization of the cosmic microwave background.

These measurements are expected to provide further confirmation of the theory as well as information about cosmic inflation, and the so-called secondary anisotropies, such as the Sunyaev-Zel ' dovich effect and Sachs-Wolfe effect, which are caused by interaction between galaxies and clusters with the cosmic microwave background.

The chemical elements are thought to have been produced by various cosmic processes, including hydrogen, helium ( and smaller amounts of lithium, beryllium and boron ) created during the Big Bang and cosmic-ray spallation.

On Earth, small amounts of new atoms are naturally produced in nucleogenic reactions, or in cosmogenic processes, such as cosmic ray spallation.

The universe's 94 naturally occurring chemical elements are thought to have been produced by at least four cosmic processes.

Elements heavier in atomic number than iron, as heavy as uranium and plutonium, are produced by explosive nucleosynthesis in supernovas and other cataclysmic cosmic events.

For example, trace ( but detectable ) amounts of carbon-14 (< sup > 14 </ sup > C ) are continually produced in the atmosphere by cosmic rays impacting nitrogen atoms, and argon-40 (< sup > 40 </ sup > Ar ) is continually produced by the decay of primordially occurring but unstable potassium-40 (< sup > 40 </ sup > K ).

Very abundant hydrogen and helium are products of the Big Bang, but the next three elements are rare since they had little time to form in the Big Bang and are not made in stars ( they are, however, produced in small quantities by breakup of heavier elements in interstellar dust, as a result of impact by cosmic rays ).