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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cosmology \cos*mol"o*gy\ (k[o^]z*m[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^]), n. [Gr. ko`smos the world + -logy: cf. F. cosmologie.]
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The branch of science or philosophy dealing with the origin and nature of the universe as a whole. specifically
(Philosophy) the branch of metaphysics speculating on the structure and nature of the most fundamental parts of the system of creation, such as space and time, the elements of bodies, the structure of the universe, the modifications of material things, causality, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.
(Astronomy) the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and structure of the universe, including the evolution of its present observable structure, using the methods of observational astronomy as well as mathematical physics.
a treatise dealing with the original and structure of the universe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Modern Latin cosmologia, from Greek kosmos (see cosmos) + -logia "discourse" (see -logy). Related: Cosmological; cosmologist.\n\nThey cannot scare me with their empty spaces\n
Between stars
--on stars where no human race is.\n
I have it in me so much nearer home\n
To scare myself with my own desert places.\n
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[Robert Frost, from "Desert Places," 1936]
Wiktionary
n. The study of the physical universe, its structure, dynamics, origin and evolution, and fate.
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Cosmology (from the Greek κόσμος, kosmos "world" and -λογία, -logia "study of"), is the study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the universe. Physical cosmology is the scholarly and scientific study of the origin, evolution, large-scale structures and dynamics, and ultimate fate of the universe, as well as the scientific laws that govern these realities.
The term cosmology was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's Glossographia, and in 1731 taken up in Latin by German philosopher Christian Wolff, in Cosmologia Generalis.
Religious or mythological cosmology is a body of beliefs based on mythological, religious, and esoteric literature and traditions of creation and eschatology.
Physical cosmology is studied by scientists, such as astronomers and physicists, as well as philosophers, such as metaphysicians, philosophers of physics, and philosophers of space and time. Because of this shared scope with philosophy, theories in physical cosmology may include both scientific and non-scientific propositions, and may depend upon assumptions that can not be tested. Cosmology differs from astronomy in that the former is concerned with the Universe as a whole while the latter deals with individual celestial objects. Modern physical cosmology is dominated by the Big Bang theory, which attempts to bring together observational astronomy and particle physics; more specifically, a standard parameterization of the Big Bang with dark matter and dark energy, known as the Lambda-CDM model.
Theoretical astrophysicist David N. Spergel has described cosmology as a "historical science" because "when we look out in space, we look back in time" due to the finite nature of the speed of light.
Cosmology is the second album by Rolo Tomassi, released on 24 May 2010. The album was planned to be released on 19 April, but was pushed back by the record label, Hassle. The band had begun recording demos for the record in the first week of October 2009 and wasted no time in recording the tracks professionally in Los Angeles during the second and third weeks of the same month. The album was produced by Diplo.
B-sides for singles from the album include "The Golden Ghost", which was released on 28 April via the "2010 Subs Club". "Party Wounds" is the A-side to this release.
"Party Wounds" was the first song from Cosmology to have a video.
Cosmology is the academic discipline that seeks to understand the origin, evolution, structure, and ultimate fate of the universe.
Cosmology may also refer to:
- Esoteric cosmology, cosmology that is part of an esoteric or occult system of thought
- Physical cosmology, the study of large-scale structures and dynamics of the universe
- Philosophical cosmology, a branch of philosophy that ponders on the universe
- Religious cosmology, a way of explaining the origin, history, and evolution of the universe based on the religious traditions
Cosmology may also refer to:
- Cosmology (album), 2010 album by Rolo Tomassi
- Cosmology (The Urantia Book), cosmological and metaphysical concept outlined in The Urantia Book
- Cosmology@Home, BOINC distributed computing project
- Jain cosmology
Philosophical cosmology, philosophy of cosmology or philosophy of cosmos is a discipline directed to the philosophical contemplation of the universe as a totality, and to its conceptual foundations. It draws on several branches of philosophy -- metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and on the fundamental theories of physics. The term cosmology was used at least as early as 1730, by German philosopher Christian Wolff, in Cosmologia Generalis.
It can be distinguished two types of cosmological arguments: deductive and inductive cosmological arguments. The first type has a long tradition in the history of philosophy (proposed by thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Descartes and Leibniz, and criticized by thinkers like David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Bertrand Russell, while the latter has been formulated by philosophers like Richard Swinburne.
For Leibniz, all the plenum of the universe is entirely filled with tiny Monads, which cannot fail, have no constituent parts and have no windows through which anything could come in or go out. In his Aesthetics, philosopher José Vasconcelos explains his theory on the evolution of the universe and the restructuring of its cosmic substance, in the physical, biological and human orders.
Philosophical cosmology tries to respond questions such as:
- What is the provenance of the cosmos?
- What are the essential constituents of the cosmos?
- Does the cosmos have an ulterior motive?
- How does the cosmos behave?
- How can we understand the cosmos in which we find ourselves?
Usage examples of "cosmology".
Vafa, and other physicists have made use of these ideas to suggest a rewriting of the laws of cosmology in which both the big bang and the possible big crunch do not involve a zero-size universe, but rather one that is Planck-length in all dimensions.
String cosmology, as we shall discuss in Chapter 14, is a field very much in its infancy but one that holds great promise, and may very well provide us with this easier-to-swallow alternative to the standard big bang model.
All the data we possess confirm a theory of cosmology capable of describing the universe from about a hundredth of a second ATB to the present, some 15 billion years later.
Currently, research on the implications of string theory for cosmology is at an early stage of development.
But, because of difficulties in performing fully trustworthy calculations in such extreme situations with our present understanding of string theory, our work only provides a first look into string cosmology, and is very far from the final word.
Gasperini and Veneziano have, in fact, come up with their own intriguing version of string cosmology that shares certain features with the scenario described above, but also differs in significant ways.
Then, through the standard expansion of ordinary big bang cosmology, this patch can account for the whole of the universe with which we are familiar.
We should require that our ultimate theory give a cogent cosmology within our universe.
As we have discussed, superstring cosmology is a young field, even by the youthful standards set by string theory itself.
Accordingly, the dogmas of Christian philosophy theoretically contain the monotheistic cosmology, and practically the rules for a holy life, which appears as a renunciation of the world and as a new order of society.
In the cosmology of the Apologists the two fundamental ideas are that God is the Father and Creator of the world, but that, as uncreated and eternal, he is also the complete contrast to it.
They connected the Christology with the cosmology, but were not able to combine it with the scheme of salvation.
The place of these is taken by the results of speculative cosmology, which, though themselves practically conditioned, do not seem to be of this character.
To this rationalism, the objects of knowledge are unvarying, ever the same: even cosmology attracts interest only in a very small degree.
This is an exploration not just of cosmology but of fundamental physics.