Also, the contents of an expanding universe ( to first order ) can be described as an adiabatically cooling fluid.

However in Daoism it refers more often to a meta-physical term that describes a force that encompasses the entire universe but which cannot be described nor felt.

Frigg is described as the only one other than Odin who is permitted to sit on his high seat Hlidskjalf and look out over the universe.

Among other things, Schroeder attempts to reconcile a six day creation as described in Genesis with the scientific evidence that the world is billions of years old using the idea that the perceived flow of time for a given event in an expanding universe varies with the observer ’ s perspective of that event.

According to the dominant cosmological model, the Lambda-CDM model, less than 5 % of the universe's energy density is made up of the " matter " described by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, and the majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy-with no agreement amongst scientists about what these are made of.

In physics, motion in the universe is described through two sets of apparently contradictory laws of mechanics.

Motions of all large scale and familiar objects in the universe ( such as projectiles, planets, cells, and humans ) are described by classical mechanics.

" He argues this " implies that any conceivable parallel universe theory can be described at Level IV " and " subsumes all other ensembles, therefore brings closure to the hierarchy of multiverses, and there cannot be say a Level V ."

In the Bahá ' í Faith, God is described as a single, imperishable God, the creator of all things, including all the creatures and forces in the universe.

This world is described in the Book of Invasions ( recorded in the Book of Leinster ) as a parallel universe in which the aos sí walk amongst the living.

By combining space and time into a single manifold, physicists have significantly simplified a large number of physical theories, as well as described in a more uniform way the workings of the universe at both the supergalactic and subatomic levels.

In the Babylonian creation story Enuma Elish the universe was in a formless state and is described as a watery chaos.

If the universe is described by an effective local quantum field theory down to the Planck scale, then we would expect a cosmological constant of the order of.

Questions regarding why the universe behaves in such a way have been described by physicists and cosmologists as being extra-scientific ( i. e., metaphysical ), though speculations are made from a variety of perspectives that include extrapolation of scientific theories to untested regimes ( i. e., at Planck scales ), and philosophical or religious ideas.

Like most technologies in the Star Trek fictional universe, the exact operation of shield technology is never precisely described.

Consideration of the possibility of backwards time travel in a hypothetical universe described by a Gödel metric led famed logician Kurt Gödel to assert that time might itself be a sort of illusion.

Through the work of Zermelo and others, especially John von Neumann, the structure of what some see as the " natural " objects described by ZFC eventually became clear ; they are the elements of the von Neumann universe, V, built up from the empty set by transfinitely iterating the power set operation.

This is described as the implant offering the gateway to this universe, meaning that these traumatic memories are what separate thetans from their static ( natural, godlike ) state.

The Standard Model falls short of being a complete theory of fundamental interactions because it does not incorporate the full theory of gravitation as described by general relativity, or predict the accelerating expansion of the universe ( as possibly described by dark energy ).

Since the early twentieth century when astronomer Edwin Hubble first hypothesized that redshift shows the universe is expanding, prevailing scientific opinion has been that the current state of the universe is the result of a process described by the Big Bang.

Moses Maimonides wrote that " by virtue of the existence of the Creator everything exists " and argues in his 12th-century Guide for the Perplexed ( 2: 13 ) that " time itself is part of creation " and that therefore, " when God is described as existing before the creation of the universe, the notion of time should not be understood in its normal sense.

The accounts of the emergence of life within the universe vary in description, but classically the god Brahma, from a Trimurti of three gods also including Vishnu and Shiva, is described as performing the act of creation, or more specifically of " propagating life within the universe " with the other two deities being responsible for preservation and destruction ( of the universe ) respectively.

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.

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.

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 ''.

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.

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.

In the universe, argon-36 is by far the most common argon isotope, being the preferred argon isotope produced by stellar nucleosynthesis in supernovas.

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.