WordNet
n. the time covered by the physical formation and development of the universe
Usage examples of "cosmic time".
But from the viewpoint of one within, cosmic time-outside time-is frozen.
From sphinx to tower is an instant of cosmic time - a moment in the fifteen or so billion years that have elapsed since the Big Bang.
And despite the insignificance of the instant we have so far occupied in cosmic time, it is clear that what happens on and near Earth at the beginning of the second cosmic year will depend very much on the scientific wisdom and the distinctly human sensitivity of mankind.
According to one of these calculations, only sixty-five years of cosmic time would pass for the crew of the 'flying lamp', while four and a half million years would go by on our planet!
Couldn't we give it such a tremendous impulse that it would fly back beyond the beginning of cosmic time to that point when there was still nothing?
If things don't go wrong, and continue not going wrong for the next millennium of millennia (the boasted forty years being no more than forty winks in cosmic time), you get .