cosmology
宇宙学,宇宙论,宇宙观,宇宙学说
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- : the branch of philosophy dealing with the origin and general structure of the universe, with its parts, elements, and laws, and especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and freedom.
- : the branch of astronomy that deals with the general structure and evolution of the universe.
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A few years later I got invited by Stephen Hawking to a now legendary conference, the 1982 Nuffield conference in Cambridge, where early-universe cosmology was the main subject.
The biggest puzzle in cosmology right now has to do with the Hubble constant, a measure of the speed at which the universe is expanding.
Instead, he turned his attention to cosmology and astrophysics and the physics entailed in these disciplines.
Recent advances in cosmology allow us to state, with a fair amount of certainty, that 95 percent of the universe is missing.
You see that in how people argue about history and in the very emotional disputes people end up having about the prehistoric, or about cosmology.
Whether those facts match the cosmology of an Iron Age text is not their problem.
Yet Carson is undoubtedly a powerful new force in the GOP cosmology.
Last week, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev felt the need to reject the Mayan cosmology.
His divine cosmology always has a distinctly left-wing practicality.
Since philosophy and physics intertwine at the far reaches of cosmology, this makes him a much more satisfying guide than most.
The elements in mediaeval cosmology were assigned to a definite region of the universe.