One of these factions created a race of super-Zentradi, called Evil ( pronounced eh-vil ) with extraordinary powers ; unfortunately, these beings became possessed by creatures from a parallel universe.

Thus earth has fallen to the center of the universe.

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.

This slim book, while giving the reader only a fleeting glimpse of the scientific mind confronting the universe, has the appeal that informed conversation always has.

The ravages of the plague in Oran vividly convey the absurdist position that humans live in an indifferent, incomprehensible universe that has no rational meaning or order, and no transcendent God.

They believe that the soul belongs to the spiritual universe which has its origins in God.

* Pattern: A character who has walked the pattern can walk in shadow to any possible universe, and while there can manipulate probability.

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.

Vinge's former wife, Joan D. Vinge, has also written stories in the Zones of Thought universe, based on his notes.

*" The Almighty has not created the universe that we may have opportunities to satisfy our greed, envy and ambition.

For example, the first assumption has been tested by observations showing that largest possible deviation of the fine structure constant over much of the age of the universe is of order 10 < sup >− 5 </ sup >.

As a theory relevant to the origin of the universe, the Big Bang has significant bearing on religion and philosophy.

The universe described by the Einstein model is static ; space is finite and unbounded ( analogous to the surface of a sphere, which has a finite area but no edges ).

In our universe this has already happened, billions of years ago.

Since then, the evolution of the universe has passed through three phases.

Cosmological perturbation theory, which describes the evolution of slight inhomogeneities in the early universe, has allowed cosmologists to precisely calculate the angular power spectrum of the radiation, and it has been measured by the recent satellite experiments ( COBE and WMAP ) and many ground and balloon-based experiments ( such as Degree Angular Scale Interferometer, Cosmic Background Imager, and Boomerang ).

The case for dark energy was strengthened in 1999, when measurements demonstrated that the expansion of the universe has begun to gradually accelerate.

An expanding universe generally has a cosmological horizon which, by analogy with the more familiar horizon caused by the curvature of the Earth's surface, marks the boundary of the part of the universe that an observer can see.

Another adjunct, the varying speed of light model has also been theorized by Jean-Pierre Petit in 1988, John Moffat in 1992 as well Andreas Albrecht and João Magueijo in 1999, instead of superluminal expansion the speed of light was 60 orders of magnitude faster than its current value solving the horizon and homogeneity problems in the early universe.

For example, at over 1. 9 years, over a billion times longer than the current estimated age of the universe, bismuth-209 ( atomic number 83 ) has the longest known alpha decay half-life of any naturally occurring element.

The half-lives of these metastable " theoretical radionuclides " are so long ( at least 100 million times longer than the estimated age of the universe ) that their radioactive decay has yet to be detected by experiment.

For example, at over 1. 9 years, over a billion times longer than the current estimated age of the universe, bismuth-209 ( atomic number 83 ) has the longest known alpha decay half-life of any naturally occurring element.

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.

Could it be that it speeded up for the aged in some mysterious way, as if a bored universe were skipping through the end of the chapter just to get it over with??

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.

There is no definite or clear way to define the total energy of the universe due to the most widely accepted theory of gravity, general relativity.

One way to study structure in the universe is to survey the visible galaxies, in order to construct a three-dimensional picture of the galaxies in the universe and measure the matter power spectrum.

Cyborgs are a major way of life in the GUNNM universe, with sports, such as Motorball ( and crimes, such as spine-stealing ), contributing to a culture of cyborgs.

The weather starts to change in a dramatic way leading to a planetary winter and a few space travellers sail out to wander in the cosmic ocean in search of answers about their place in the universe.

In a similar way, evidence about the history of the universe is drawn from astronomy, astrophysics, planetary geology, and physics.

Isaac Newton's ( 1642 – 1727 ) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained the behavior both of objects here on earth and of objects in the heavens in a way that promoted a worldview in which the natural universe is controlled by laws of nature.

He affirmed the perfection of God and His creation, and credited intuition as well as reason as a way to bring Man closer to the universe.

In some models of broken Lorentz symmetry, it is postulated that the symmetry is still built into the most fundamental laws of physics, but that spontaneous symmetry breaking of Lorentz invariance shortly after the Big Bang could have left a " relic field " throughout the universe which causes particles to behave differently depending on their velocity relative to the field ; however, there are also some models where Lorentz symmetry is broken in a more fundamental way.

The study of galaxy formation and evolution is concerned with the processes that formed a heterogeneous universe from a homogeneous beginning, the formation of the first galaxies, the way galaxies change over time, and the processes that have generated the variety of structures observed in nearby galaxies.

Clusters of galaxies are the most recent and most massive objects to have arisen in the hierarchical structure formation of the universe and the study of clusters tells one about the way galaxies form and evolve.

His later piano music and string quartets, especially, showed the way to a completely unexplored musical universe, and influenced Franz Schubert ( 1797 – 1828 ) and Robert Schumann ( 1810 – 1856 ).

Similar to yoga, learning the Tree of Life is not so much magick as it is a way to map out one's spiritual universe.

For example, a statement such as " God created the universe " may be true or false, but no tests can be devised that could prove it either way ; it simply lies outside the reach of science.

The title is a reference to the line uttered by Hamlet to Horatio after being visited by his father's ghost and learning that his uncle Claudius murdered his father ; in short, a shocking supernatural event that fundamentally alters the way Hamlet perceives the state and the universe (" The time is out of joint ; O cursed spite !/ That ever I was born to set it right!

God is not merely creator of the universe ; His active Presence is necessary in some way for every bit of creation, from smallest to greatest, to continue to exist at all.

The study of pottery may also allow inferences to be drawn about a culture's daily life, religion, social relationships, attitudes towards neighbours, attitudes to their own world and even the way the culture understood the universe.

In this reality, Odo has his own set of rules called the " Rules of Obedience " and quotes one of the rules in the same way that regular universe Quark would quote his " Rules of Acquisition ".

Italian physicist Enrico Fermi suggested in the 1950s that if technologically advanced civilizations are common in the universe, then they should be detectable in one way or another.

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.

He argued that in the same way a watch's complexity implies the existence of its maker, so too one may infer the Creator of the universe exists, given the evident complexity of Nature.

In Daoism, an absolute entity which is the source of the universe ; the way in which this absolute entity functions.

One solution to these paradoxes is the Charlier universe, in which the matter is arranged hierarchically ( systems of orbiting bodies that are themselves orbiting in a larger system, ad infinitum ) in a fractal way such that the universe has a negligibly small overall density ; such a cosmological model had also been proposed earlier in 1761 by Johann Heinrich Lambert.