When combined with the metaphysical notion that pure forms of this universe are best appreciated when least embodied in a material substratum, it becomes clear that while earth will be dross on a scale of material-formal ratios, celestial bodies will be of a subtle, quickened, ethereal existence, in whose embodiment pure form will be the dominant component and matter will be absent or remain subsidiary.

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.

There is considerable speculation as to why the observable universe is apparently composed almost entirely of matter ( as opposed to a mixture of matter and antimatter ), whether there exist other places that are almost entirely composed of antimatter instead, and what sorts of technology might be possible if antimatter could be harnessed.

At this time, the apparent asymmetry of matter and antimatter in the visible universe is one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics.

This leads to the question of why the formation of matter after the Big Bang resulted in a universe consisting almost entirely of matter, rather than being a half-and-half mixture of matter and antimatter.

The best measurements available ( from WMAP ) show that the data is well-fit by a Lambda-CDM model in which dark matter is assumed to be cold ( warm dark matter is ruled out by early reionization ), and is estimated to make up about 23 % of the matter / energy of the universe, while baryonic matter makes up about 4. 6 %.

The Big Bang is not an explosion of matter moving outward to fill an empty universe.

Arthur Eddington agreed with Aristotle that the universe did not have a beginning in time, viz., that matter is eternal.

The most familiar baryons are the protons and neutrons that make up most of the mass of the visible matter in the universe.

The distinction between baryonic and non-baryonic matter is important in cosmology, because Big Bang nucleosynthesis models set tight constraints on the amount of baryonic matter present in the early universe.

Thermodynamics of the universe is a field of study that explores which form of energy dominates the cosmos-relativistic particles which are referred to as radiation, or non-relativistic particles which are referred to as matter.

As the universe expands, both matter and radiation in it become diluted.

Thus with the expansion of the universe, radiation becomes less dominant than matter.

Later, as the average energy per photon becomes roughly 10 eV and lower, matter dictates the rate of deceleration and the universe is said to be ' matter dominated '.

As the expansion of the universe continues, matter dilutes even further and the cosmological constant becomes dominant, leading to an acceleration in the universe's expansion.

The solution is an expanding universe ; due to this expansion the radiation and matter in the universe are cooled down and become diluted.

Jain text claims that the universe consists of infinite amount of Jiva ( life force or souls ), and infinite amount of Ajiva ( lifeless objects ).

At the very top end of the universe is the residence of the liberated souls that reached the siddha status.

All Vaishnava schools are panentheistic and view the universe as part of Krishna or Narayana, but see a plurality of souls and substances within Brahman.

In the mid-eighteenth century, English theologian Daniel Waterland defined pantheism as: " It supposes God and nature, or God and the whole universe, to be one and the same substance — one universal being ; insomuch that men's souls are only modifications of the divine substance.

This results in the souls of the dead, most demented after countless aeons of ' imprisonment ' being able to return to our universe and to possess human bodies, if the owning soul gives permission-which they invariably do after sufficient torture.

Just as the founder of the universe established two great lights in the firmament of heaven, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, so too He set two great dignities in the firmament of the universal church ..., the greater on to rule the day, that is, souls, and the lesser to rule the night, that is, bodies.

* Elements of Theology: A systematic work, with 211 propositions and proofs, describing the universe from the first principle, the One, to the descent of souls into bodies

This implies that only the soul of Adam was created directly by God ( with Eve's substance, material and immaterial, being taken from out of Adam ), in contrast with creationism ( not to be confused with creationism as a belief about the origin of the material universe ), which holds that all souls are created directly by God ( with Eve's substance, material and immaterial, being taken from out of Adam ).

The Zohar contains a discussion of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of Ego to Darkness and " true self " to " The Light of God ," and the relationship between the " universal energy " and man.

Some determinists argue that materialism does not present a complete understanding of the universe, because while it can describe determinate interactions among material things, it ignores the minds or souls of conscious beings.

After her role in creation and continuously preventing the universe from returning to chaos, her primary role in Egyptian mythology dealt with the weighing of souls that took place in the underworld, Duat.

Ontologically buddhi is equivalent to hiranyagarbha: it is to individual living souls ( jivas ) what hiranyagarbha is to the insentient phenomena of the universe.

Man stands midway between the souls of plants and the souls of stars, who are angels .< ref > God, the soul of the universe, must be conceived as having an existence analogous to men.

It also contains an idyllic pocket universe that hosts all the souls the Gem has ever taken.

If this summoning came to pass, the Ancient would feast on the bodies and souls of all living beings, and cast the universe into the horror of eternal darkness.

In his teachings, Schuon expresses his faith in an absolute principle, God, who governs the universe and to whom our souls would return after death.

The eyes of characters symbolize their status in the Jack universe: sins have no pupils ; living souls and angels have full pupils ; the souls of deceased persons have " pin-prick " eyes as long as they do not recognize their sins.

Art by Jet GoodsonIn The Reality Dysfunction, the presence of an energy-based alien lifeform during the death of a human on the colony world of Lalonde somehow ' jammed open ' the interface between this universe and ' the beyond ', an energistic vacuum where the souls of dead humans ( and possibly other races ) have become trapped after death.

In The Reality Dysfunction, the presence of an energy-based alien lifeform during the death of a human on the colony world of Lalonde somehow ' jammed open ' the interface between this universe and ' the beyond ', an energistic vacuum where the souls of dead humans ( and other races, although they inhabit different areas within that realm ) have become trapped after death.

There are allusions throughout the movies that The Merovingian works in the Matrix as an analogue to Hades, including his presence in Club Hel, his unhappy marriage to Persephone, and his existence as one of the oldest beings in the Matrix universe, specifically as the one in charge of " lost souls ".

To his awe, Michael bears witness to the Afterlife ; Lillian experiences a brief vision of Hell before travelling away from Earth and through the universe, even after the tape ends, ultimately witnessing visions of angels and departed souls flying into a great cosmic Light.

As such, he began tormenting all the good souls of the universe.

It can be interpreted that Garbodakshayi Vishnu is the collective soul of all souls in a particular material universe and that Mahavishnu is the collective soul of all souls in all of the material universes.

Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being.

Found within Consolation are themes that have echoed throughout the Western canon: the female figure of wisdom that informs Dante, the ascent through the layered universe that is shared with Milton, the reconciliation of opposing forces that find their way into Chaucer in The Knight's Tale, and the Wheel of Fortune so popular throughout the Middle Ages.

" This term, which was variously used by other Chinese philosophers ( including Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, and Hanfeizi ), has special meaning within the context of Daoism, where it implies the essential, unnamable process of the universe.

Thus Sophia ’ s power becomes enclosed within the material forms of humanity, themselves entrapped within the material universe: the goal of Gnostic movements was typically the awakening of this spark, which permitted a return by the subject to the superior, non-material realities which were its primal source.

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.

As the universe cooled clumps of dark matter began to condense, and within them gas began to condense.

Franz Mesmer ( 1734 – 1815 ) believed that there is a magnetic force or " fluid " within the universe that influences the health of the human body.

In other words, within the universe itself there will be constant changes, movements and modifications in line with the macro phases of the time cycles.

The Ringworld orbits a sun outside Known Space, but it is a well-established artifact within the Known Space " universe ".

Another central branch of metaphysics is cosmology, the study of the totality of all phenomena within the universe.

Monism is a point of view within metaphysics which argues that the variety of existing things in the universe are reducible to one substance or reality and therefore that the fundamental character of the universe is unity.

Usually there are rules and goals, but in more open-ended games the player may be free to do whatever they like within the confines of the virtual universe.

A knower does not stand apart from the universe, they participate personally within it.

Beginning with the time of its creation by Mani, the Manichaean religion had a detailed description of deities and events that took place within the Manichaean scheme of the universe.

They began studying philosophy dealing with the ideal nature of the early universe and began employing an internal logic within their predictive planetary systems.

The structure of the multiverse, the nature of each universe within it and the relationship between the various constituent universes, depend on the specific multiverse hypothesis considered.

Marvel's major heroes were created in the 1960s, but the amount of time that has passed between then and now within the universe itself has ( after a prolonged period of being identified as about ten years in the mid-to-late 1990s ) most recently been identified as thirteen years.

In addition, some forms indicate that the universe is contained within God.

The two characters, brought into being within the puzzling universe of Stoppard's play by an act of the playwright's creation, have generally interchangeable, yet periodically unique, identities.

* There are also other non-player races in the Star Frontiers universe, including many in the printed modules, but these five are the only races who developed space drive technology within the Frontier.

There are four types of magic within the Slayers universe: Black, White, Shamanistic, and Holy.

As the franchise has grown in popularity, several titles have been released that are set within or star a minor character from the universe of The Legend of Zelda but are not directly connected to the main The Legend of Zelda series.