| 单词 | universe |
| 例句 | If you burned this book now, its matter would be changed to ash and smoke, but the net amount of stuff in the universe would be the same. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We are joined and I know all of the secrets of the universe. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were colder and emptier than the edge of the universe. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Without them there would be no water or air or rocks, no stars and planets, no distant gassy clouds or swirling nebulae or any of the other things that make the universe so usefully material. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And after that, for the next million years or so, the universe would have just continued expanding, without anything much happening. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope the universe proves me wrong and actually comes through—for both of us. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The Firefly universe was anchored in a sector adjacent to the Star Wars galaxy, with a detailed re-creation of the Star Trek universe in the sector adjacent to that. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It was dangerous to allow yourself to believe that what you said directly influenced the universe. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Their cosmology developed over time, but was notable for positing a perfectly spherical earth either in the center of the universe, or rotating around an ideal central fire. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The boy's hand hovered over a button, and his lips bore a cheeky Mona Lisa smile, as if he were hoarding all the secrets of the universe and would never share. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z However, the expansion of the universe meant that this light should be so greatly red-shifted that it would appear to us now as microwave radiation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Red like all the red in the entire history of the whole universe had been concentrated on her head. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “TODD HEWITT!” we hear again, faint over the roar of the water but loud as the whole entire universe. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The wisest person in all the universe, Prometheus had well been able to protect his own family. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z On the verge of blending with the universe I hear the whispers around the ridges of consciousness. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z My head was a vacuum to all the diffused fragments of my universe I’d scattered into the dark on the way home from Julia Bishop’s house. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I guess that means that somewhere there’s a universe in which you never left. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z They spoke of the universe, and of life, and of the future. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z My brother could slip into a whole other universe in his sleep. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He believed in the Aristotelian universe; the universe was contained within a giant sphere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was like all his deals with the universe had finally come true. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The universe is thus spherical and finite; moreover, it is oriented: it has a top, a bottom, a left and a right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Robert Boyle, on the other hand, insisted that was precisely how one had to think of the universe: following Kepler, he compared the universe to a clock, and so compared God to a clockmaker. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The only problem now was it was older than the universe that contained it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The void had weakened Aristotle’s philosophy, and the idea of an infinitely large cosmos helped shatter the nutshell universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The fact is, there is a great deal even at quite a fundamental level, that we don’t know–not least what the universe is made of. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We now know that the universe is much larger than they imagined in the 1920’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the heat expelled by the computer’s cooling fan means that when a computer records an item in memory, the total amount of disorder in the universe still goes up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he drives to the university, parking behind his father’s department, running along the campus roads, through the confined, picturesque universe that had been his father’s world for most of the past twenty-five years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There, inside the game’s two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The cold, dead matter of the stars would decay away, leaving nothing but a smear of radiation that spreads equally throughout the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z We are not at the centre of the universe: rather, the Earth is just another planet. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bruno was right—the universe was infinite and there were other earths; and Kepler, who had always insisted that the sun and the Earth were unique, was plain wrong. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The lecture inspired Guth to take an interest in cosmology, and in particular in the birth of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z According to the Big Bang theory, the universe came into being in one single moment—a cosmic cataclysm that gave birth to black holes, brown dwarfs, matter and dark matter, energy and dark energy. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For us, the universe goes only as far as light has traveled in the billions of years since the universe was formed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Maimonides argued that there were flaws in Aristotle’s proof that the universe had always existed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The answers that this approach suggests for the origin and fate of the universe and its contents, such as astronauts, will be described in the next two chapters. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Her bright orange blouse was the color of a pumpkin, and Moss was certain that no one in the universe could pull it off except for her. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z To the south lay the swamps, covered with an eternal vegetable scum, and the whole vast universe of the great swamp, which, according to what the gypsies said, had no limits. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes, I think everyone is like the people in that painting, everyone lost in their own private universes of pain or sorrow or guilt, everyone remote and unknowable. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Like it or not, even those who insisted that Bruno was wrong when he described an infinite universe were forced to imagine what it would be like if he were right. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Physicists theorize that up to 27 percent of the mass-energy content of the universe is composed of what they refer to as dark matter. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Or was the outermost sphere the end of the universe? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Every object is influenced by the environment it's in, so it’s impossible to cool anything in the universe—a banana, an ice cube, a dollop of liquid helium—to absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But her pride and joy was one of those huge dictionaries with every word in the universe in it, the kind of book it takes two kids to carry. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z God would choose how the universe began and what laws it obeyed, but he would not intervene in the universe once it had started. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Did the universe have a beginning, and if so, what happened before then? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe would have remained forever a dull, scattered void. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The nutshell universe had to be accepted; the void and the infinite must be rejected. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So one has to use a quantum theory of gravity to discuss the very early stages of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though scientists might never unlock the secrets of the universe’s birth, they are on the brink of understanding its death. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dimple looked at him, wondering if this were some weird universe where Rishi would turn out to be a two-thousand-year-old vampire instead. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Cantor opened up a whole new universe of numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The universe and my subconscious may be conspiring against me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One argument for such a beginning was the feeling that it was necessary to have “First Cause” to explain the existence of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So if we could determine how many primordial black holes there are now, we would learn a lot about the very early stages of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On the moon, with no atmosphere, astronomers would not have this problem, and they would be able to learn a lot more about our universe. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe starts at the North Pole as a single point. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were intoning what they called “the resonant frequency of the universe.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The no boundary proposal for the universe predicts the existence of a well-defined thermodynamic arrow of time because the universe must start off in a smooth and ordered state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Suppose, however, that God decided that the universe should finish up in a state of high order but that it didn’t matter what state it started in. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Far from being the stable, fixed, eternal void that everyone had always assumed, this was a universe that had a beginning. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I think the universe nudges them into your path. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z When we send spacecraft to the planets, when we observe double stars, when we examine the motion of distant galaxies, we find that throughout the universe Kepler’s laws are obeyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder what it smells like in your universe. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The next couple of days were kind of like that: Mine and Annie’s universe got smaller and quieter. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As the universe expanded, it would cool, and particle energies would go down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A book requires an author; a palace requires an architect; a clock requires a clockmaker; and the universe requires a creator. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Each history in the sum over histories will describe not only the space-time but everything in it as well, including any complicated organisms like human beings who can observe the history of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is impossible even to get a machine to run without wasting energy, frittering some of its power into the universe as heat. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In another universe, the calculations I do to figure this out would be worthy of some academic merit. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Kant suggested explicitly that M31 in the constellation Andromeda was another Milky Way, composed of enormous numbers of stars, and proposed calling such objects by the evocative and haunting phrase “island universes.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe of general relativity is a smooth rubber sheet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This strange force is woven into the mathematical equations of the quantum universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The exception was the Parisian philosophers, for whom the centre of gravity of both the earth and the water remained coincident with the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It didn’t feel like she was half a world away, it felt like she was half a universe away—like she was coming to me from some alternate reality. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He is viewing his universe from a unique and devastating perspective. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What Lifshitz and Khalatnikov did was to study models of the universe that were roughly like Friedmann’s models but took account of the irregularities and random velocities of galaxies in the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nana likes when the universe gives her signals that good things are coming. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Out of the void, out of nothing at all, came a cataclysmic explosion that created all the matter and energy that the entire universe is made of. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It is an interesting reflection on the general climate of thought before the twentieth century that no one had suggested that the universe was expanding or contracting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hubble’s second discovery was what shattered Einstein’s eternal universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But those short moments had made it all worthwhile, those moments of pure plenary abandon, when he felt as if he, and he alone, were in control of the universe of his childhood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I think it was something about us being in the dark looking out on the world, moving through the universe without being seen, our private wheels, our private space flight. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z If the universe is regular and predictable, this is not because there are internal forms but because God has imposed order upon it from the outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “But the whole universe is outside us. Look at the stars! Some of them are a million light-years away. They are out of our reach forever.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "If we were randomly inserted into the universe," Sagan wrote, "the chances that you would be on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This was an astounding discovery; the universe was millions of times bigger than previously suspected. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The new inflationary model was a good attempt to explain why the universe is the way it is. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This would mean that the early universe would have probably been very chaotic and irregular because there are many more chaotic and disordered configurations for the universe than there are smooth and ordered ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On the television set is a brass statue of Shiva as Nataraja, the cosmic lord of the dance, who controls the motions of the universe and the flow of time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I may not be able to leave the rover/ bedroom universe while the bedroom is attached to the airlock, but I can stay in the rover and close the door. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m assuming of course that you wish to build an inflationary universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The ground gave way beneath my feet, dragging me downward, spinning fast, like sand rushing through a hole in the bottom of the universe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Scientists even theorize that if you could take the position, speed, trajectory, and mass of every object in the universe and feed it into a supercomputer, you could predict the future of everything. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z For a long time, this was sufficient justification for Friedmann’s assumption—as a rough approximation to the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ben walked toward his father, he was surprised to look up and see the universe shivering with starlight. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The supernova data imply that the universe is getting bigger and bigger, faster and faster. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like the universe decided he was too perfect and had to give him one tiny flaw. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Usually, that serendipity felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z There is, we are told, an infinite hierarchy of universes, so that an elementary particle, such as an electron, in our universe would, if penetrated, reveal itself to be an entire closed universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it,” he had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z In the hot big bang model described above, there was not enough time in the early universe for heat to have flowed from one region to another. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Do I dare disturb the universe? was now a grotesque jumble of unconnected letters. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On account of this rotation the entire universe appears to revolve with enormous speed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The piece that completes the puzzle is string theory, according to which “the tally of possible universes stands at the almost incomprehensible 10500, a number so large it defies analogy.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We have certainly come a long way since Aristotle and Ptolemy, when we thought that the earth was the center of the universe! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Davis, Daisy, and Mychal eventually went back to talking about Star Wars and the size of the universe and traveling faster than light. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z With the coming forward of Greece, mankind became the center of the universe, the most important thing in it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Our familiar universe of galaxies and stars, planets and people, would be a single elementary particle in the next universe up, the first step of another infinite regress. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Einstein gave us a universe that didn’t need it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As he did so, he sensed that the universe had fallen silent, and he decided not to speak. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s been a long time since you left me behind. Perhaps things have changed. Perhaps the fabric of the universe has unraveled just a tad.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I could almost hear my dog saying that it was one thing to think incorrectly, but acting incorrectly was a completely different universe, and I hadn’t gone there with Julia Bishop. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z While there is only so much area on the surface of the sphere, there is no edge to this universe—it is finite but unbounded. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But there does not seem to be any need for all those other galaxies, nor for the universe to be so uniform and similar in every direction on the large scale. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They're listening like Jessica is telling them the secrets of the universe, those funny, clever, precious secrets, the secrets that make them the chosen ones. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If you evolve such a universe forward in time according to the laws of science, you will end up with the lumpy and irregular state you started with. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Einstein once asked the question: “How much choice did God have in constructing the universe?” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This finding alone would have ensured Hubble’s reputation, but he now turned to the question of working out just how much vaster the universe was, and made an even more striking discovery. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When she’d been a Christian, she had felt connected, too; but when she left the Church, she felt loose and free and light, in a universe without purpose. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Do we live in a universe that expands forever or in one in which there is an infinite set of cycles? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My father used to say that there are forces in the universe that can transform our lives if only we’d surrender ourselves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Abby, did I mention you are the absolute best person in the entire universe? Oh my God. I love you so much. I love you more than Nick loves you.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Both are theories of the universe, though the latter is much more mathematical and precise than the former. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The size of the universe is, to be a little generous, a sphere about 40 billion light-years in diameter. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result of his sighting of the new star Brahe was convinced that, if the structure of the universe was to be understood, much more accurate measurements must be made. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Einstein’s general theory of relativity seems to govern the large-scale structure of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Imagine,” Mrs. Branson said, “if you were no longer able to do your experiments. Or ask any more questions about the universe. How would that make you feel?” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Uncle just snorted, convinced that it was part of the general ineptitude of the deities who were in charge of the universe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, the sentence was clear: “...is the most fundamental—and yet least understood—element of the known universe.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It’s just...a possibility, like it’s a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A quite separate argument was the claim that the universe has been designed to serve a purpose, like a clock or any other complex machine, and that it therefore demonstrates the existence of God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z And why is the direction of time in which disorder increases the same as that in which the universe expands? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So someone decided that the taste test is the universe’s way of revealing fate: love or death. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There’s a universe where I stayed home and packed like my mom wanted me to. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The largest recognizable structures in the universe had formed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most objects in the universe don't have a speed that every observer can agree on. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The argument for the antithesis was that if the universe had a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before it, so why should the universe begin at any one particular time? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of these three centres was held to be the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then, as the universe expanded and cooled, the antiquarks would annihilate with the quarks, but since there would be more quarks than antiquarks, a small excess of quarks would remain. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z How could the earth not He at the center of the universe, critics asked, if all heavy objects on our planet tend to fall toward its center? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z A universe that can wink into existence can wink out again. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The universe still had a centre, and the sun and the Earth were still unique objects. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was then asked to give a seminar on the inflationary universe at Drexel University in Philadelphia. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Theogony is an account of the creation of the universe and the generations of the gods, and it is very important for mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no way I’m letting you leave. We’re building you the biggest, baddest tiny house the universe has ever seen!” she says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z There is no law that requires the universe to fill itself with small particles of matter or to produce light and gravity and the other physical properties on which our existence hinges. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The earliest theoretical attempts to describe and explain the universe involved the idea that events and natural phenomena were controlled by spirits with human emotions who acted in a very humanlike and unpredictable manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The clock metaphor is thus used by Descartes to make an epistemological argument about the limits of our understanding, rather than as an analogy as to how the universe actually works. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Rabbinic tradition compelled him to accept the biblical account of the universe’s creation from the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The idea is very simple, despite its magical trappings: in viewing the universe, every place is as good as every other place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent to the concerns of such puny creatures as we. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just about every individual atom in the universe, every last bit of the stuff that builds me, is nearly fourteen billion years old. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The difficulty is that in an infinite static universe nearly every line of sight would end on the surface of a star. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She imagines that her love can rise farther than that, much farther, up into the universe, into unreachable places, and to unreachable people. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I have a hard time believing that all of Travis’s memories—everything he loved, all that he was—don’t exist anymore somewhere. Why would God make such a universe in someone and then destroy it?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Astronomy is a science—the study of the universe as it is. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, and the countless miracles—my heart expanded to encompass all the wonders and possibilities of the universe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Without electrical forces, there would no longer be things in the universe—merely diffuse clouds of electrons, protons and neutrons, and gravitating spheres of elementary particles, the featureless remnants of worlds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Zeno, nothing in the universe could move. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There is no theory of the universe: events cannot be predicted beyond a certain extent but occur in a random and arbitrary manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If you could feel every atom in your body simultaneously release its grip on its neighbors, expand outward so that each particle becomes a new center in the universe, it would feel exactly like this. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Do you think, Ari, that love has anything to do with the secrets of the universe?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z If there were no event horizon, no cosmic censor that shields the singularity from the rest of the universe, very strange things might happen. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The hypersphere is expanding from a point, like a four-dimensional balloon being inflated, creating in every instant more space in the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In that universe there is no such thing as nothing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The night is pleasingly long—about 59 Earth days long—but nothing of the astronomical universe would be visible if you looked up into the night sky of Venus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nicolaus Copernicus showed that Earth is not the center of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation gave physicists an explanation for the way planets and objects move through the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What would it mean if we actually did discover the ultimate theory of the universe? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a long time before astrophysicists came to agree that our universe was finite—that it did, in fact, have a beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z You know, discovering the secrets of the universe. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z In other words, the universe would have to behave the same if one replaced particles by antiparticles, took the mirror image, and also reversed the direction of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And to the question, Where in the present universe did the Big Bang occur? the answer is clearly, everywhere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus intelligent life could not exist in the contracting phase of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s the universe weaving a Persian flaw into your otherwise perfect plan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z During the inflationary phase, the universe increases its size by a very large amount. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the Cosmos is rich beyond measure: the total number of stars in the universe is greater than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I get like this sometimes when I think about how big the universe could be. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z It was different from the universe to which he had been accustomed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This work on inflationary models showed that the present state of the universe could have arisen from quite a large number of different initial configurations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As Guth has remarked, “It is said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt as if the universe was offering her something beautiful and special. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Why is the universe so uniform on a large scale? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But perspective painting provided the first glimpse of this new universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Thus, the atomic theory required that the universe be filled with emptiness—an infinite void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I don't even know what to tell you other than the fact that being out to the universe is completely exhausting. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z On the one hand, they knew the universe to be finite. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He didn’t think the universe owed him an apology whenever something went wrong—unlike another son of the sky god she’d recently met. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The witch did not step toward them, she did not call to them, she merely stood there, completely still, the center of this desolate universe, while the air bowed to her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The entire universe must have been incredibly hot and dense; it would have been glowing with bright light. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Britain’s waving his hand in front of my face, and I send a silent prayer of thanks to the universe for his inebriation. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z When the curvature of space-time becomes large, quantum gravitational effects will become important and the classical theory will cease to be a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What is she, the queen of the frickin’ universe or something? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It was also found that the weak force did not obey the symmetry C. That is, it would cause a universe composed of antiparticles to behave differently from our universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This does not happen in the normal expansion of the universe in which the matter energy density goes down as the universe gets bigger. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Set your intention. Proclaim to the universe what you will be,” Lita says. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Unlike the Western universe, the Hindu cosmos was infinite in extent; beyond our own universe were innumerable other universes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The first part of that word comes from the Greek word for universe, kosmos. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z That for once I am the star in his universe, even if for only this moment. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But it enables us to establish the laws that would need to apply in any possible universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There are similar galaxies, as if stamped from the same mold, all over the Cosmos because these simple laws of nature—gravity and the conservation of angular momentum— are the same all over the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mathematical theories might be beautiful and consistent and might seem to explain the nature of the universe—and be utterly wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I felt like the sage Markandeya, who fell out of Vishnu’s mouth while Vishnu was sleeping and so beheld the entire universe, everything that there is. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z This is important, because it shows that the initial state of the part of the universe that we inhabit did not have to be chosen with great care. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the past few years they have begun to succeed, creating a monster theory that explains the quantum-mechanical nature of gravity, allowing them to peer at the very creation of our universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “But really,” he says, “it just made everything hurt inside to watch them hurt you two, and I would have done anything in the universe to stop it.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “I get it. Dark matter is twenty-seven percent of the universe, you said?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When we make first contact with the aliens in other universes and jabber at them in our local code, they cannot understand us without a sci-fi Universal Translator. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He could be stranded in another time or even a parallel universe. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The fate of the universe in either cosmology may seem a little depressing, but we may take solace in the time scales involved. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The infinite threatened to make all motion impossible, while the void threatened to smash the nutshell universe into a thousand flinders. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Today scientists describe the universe in terms of two basic partial theories—the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the universe one, and I’m not going to lie. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z According to a number of early cosmologies and the Jewish/Christian/Muslim tradition, the universe started at a finite, and not very distant, time in the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d made a straightforward deal, just like the ones he made with the universe: improve your grades, and you can have a dog. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The universe’s fate hinges on how well our space-time balloon is expanding. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z His space-time had the curious property that the whole universe was rotating. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So Texas now boasts the most expensive hole in the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z High school is like a whole universe of parties, groups, activities to which you are the only person who doesn’t have the key, who never gets an invitation. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is illusion to think that there is anything fragile about the life of the earth; surely this is the toughest membrane imaginable in the universe, opaque to probability, impermeable to death. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We were like astronauts floating in a starless universe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Everybody knows that Einstein’s the greatest scientist in the universe, and someday I hope to be the same.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But maybe the universe works differently in New York. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z He told us about the magic qualities every number has and how numbers unlock the secrets of the universe. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z This isn’t a matter of simply needing more precise instruments; it is an immutable property of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A particularly interesting problem is the size of the small departures from uniform density in the early universe that caused the formation first of the galaxies, then of stars, and finally of us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All this time I had been trying to figure out the secrets of the universe, the secrets of my own body, of my own heart. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z In a universe so cruel and unfair, so designed to torment him, he’d been given a mother who cared for him, deeply and completely. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “All you dreamer types think the universe exists just for you and your passion.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z This camp was their universe, and they had accepted that. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If the universe really is in such a quantum state, there would be no singularities in the history of the universe in imaginary time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I say out loud as my Noise forgets itself and all there is in the universe is my legs moving. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Newton, and others, should have realized that a static universe would soon start to contract under the influence of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl Sagan in Cosmos raised the possibility that if you traveled downward into an electron, you might find that it contained a universe of its own, recalling all those science fiction stories of the fifties. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Maybe their universe is just taking longer to form. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all part of the game. And the game is to uncover the hidden order of the universe. Seder means ‘order.’ The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And I thought, maybe everything in the universe is alive tonight, anyway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z A heliocentric universe resonated with Kepler’s religious sense, and he embraced it with fervor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Einstein couldn’t bear the notion that God could create a universe in which some things were forever unknowable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z My Aunt Ophelia had solved a few of the many mysteries of the universe. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z The Hebrew term ein sof, which meant “infinite,” represented the creator aspect of God, the part of the deity that made the universe and that permeates every corner of the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It’s Tuesday morning and the universe hates me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And this was nothing—a moment of motion through space—but I wondered at all that distance above and below me, how big this universe might actually be; how fast it all moved. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We are entitled to feel at home in Boyle’s universe, even if it is a mechanical apparatus; it is not clear that an immortal, immaterial soul has any business feeling at home in Descartes’ universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Whether to the stars or the universe, these space travelers are sailors. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The number of black holes, however, is almost certainly very much higher; in the long history of the universe, many stars must have burned all their nuclear fuel and have had to collapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now at first sight, all this evidence that the universe looks the same whichever direction we look in might seem to suggest there is something special about our place in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In particular, it might seem that if we observe all other galaxies to be moving away from us, then we must be at the center of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His two- dimensional universe must have been warped, bent or curved through a mysterious third dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because those people live in a different universe than me now. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If her guess about these universes was right, and they were the multiple worlds predicted by quantum theory, then some of them would have split off from her own much earlier than others. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Think about a place in the universe where there is no such thing as sex. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Cesariano provides perfectly conventional illustrations of the Aristotelian universe as a series of bounded spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It is not that the expansion of the universe causes disorder to increase. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He told me he was having a hard time sleeping, and I tried not to be disappointed, because I wanted to hear more about that universe of his, which only he could see. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The expansion of the universe isn’t slowing down. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They and the university still formed some center to his universe, but only as a point of origin; he hardly ever saw anyone anymore. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The Aristotelian tradition also held that one could work out all the laws that govern the universe by pure thought: it was not necessary to check by observation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, if we say that God has always existed, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re saying we ought not to go out into the open air? Man, every single part of me is aching to join the rest of the living universe again!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The voyage past the last edges of the universe is frightening and impossible but sometimes astonishing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In every cinder of the universe Mercer probably perceives inconspicuous life. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Even if the search for primordial black holes proves negative, as it seems it may, it will still give us important information about the very early stages of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In that case, the universe would already be in a state of complete disorder, so disorder could not increase with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There are those who secretly deplore these great discoveries, who consider every step a demotion, who in their heart of hearts still pine for a universe whose center, focus and fulcrum is the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My brain is like a universe whose gases get thinner and thinner at the edges. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Yet it seems that the uncertainty principle is a fundamental feature of the universe we live in. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “What we perceive as art, the universe perceives as directions,” he proclaims. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It's the safest place to smoke a cigarette in the known universe. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Never know what the universe has planned for us.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He just barged in from his own little universe, all perky: “Greetings, fellow students.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The swirling colors of the universe, packed into our little atmosphere here on earth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z This, in turn, leads to the most bizarre zero in the universe: the phantom force of nothing. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z And since there are forces that do not obey the symmetry T, it follows that as the universe expands, these forces could cause more antielectrons to turn into quarks than electrons into antiquarks. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe this is the universe telling me to stop putting this off. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I was stupid to think that the universe had some master plan. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Whole universes burned in those eyes—galaxies upon galaxies. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He realized he was taking a stroll across the most dangerous circulatory system in the universe. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z If they are really separate from each other, what happens in another universe can have no observable consequences in our own universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We could all die, the world could end, and the universe would simply carry on. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The Visit Room constituted a sort of breach in the wall between the hermetic world of the prison and the universe outside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe this is the only universe where I am here, and this is me, and there’s only one universe where there’s a Caroline Murphy. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Not that we had a chance in the universe of doing any such thing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The boys in their universe and we in ours. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But in every other respect, the universe was smiling on him today—especially when they saw what was sitting in the window of DiSarno’s bakery. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Thus, when we look at the universe, we are seeing it as it was in the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Outer space is the universe outside the atmosphere of our planet.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But for other things in the universe–light, gravity, the universe itself–these are matters of consequence. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the smaller things—like human beings, for example—can also change and affect the bigger things in the universe.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z In that titanic cosmic explosion, the universe began an expansion which has never ceased. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Copernican model got rid of Ptolemy’s celestial spheres, and with them, the idea that the universe had a natural boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With its notions in mind I see my place in the universe. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was engineers such as de Caus who, by generalizing the concept of a moving mechanism, made the clockwork universe and the mechanical man possible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This limit means that primordial black holes could make up at most one millionth of the matter in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And I found myself whispering, “Do you think we’ll ever discover all the secrets of the universe?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Observations of the microwave background and of the abundances of the light elements indicate that the early universe did not have the kind of curvature required to allow time travel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the vacuum everywhere in the universe is seething with a quantum foam of virtual particles, the fabric of the universe is filled with infinite zero-point energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The universe would reach a maximum size at the equator and would contract with increasing imaginary time to a single point at the South Pole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The method provided only relative distances, not absolute distances, but even so it was the first time that anyone had come up with a usable way to measure the large-scale universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, elsewhere, there are an infinite number of other universes, each with its own god dreaming the cosmic dream. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These are thought to have developed from small differences in the density of the early universe from one region to another. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Benedetti held that the universe is spherical but that it is surrounded by unbounded empty space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It gives me a strange feeling to think about how big our universe is. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The tinfoil suns and moons and stars dangle and twist and reflect the sun’s rays back out into the bigger universe. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So the total energy of the universe is zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It appears that at least 90 percent of the universe, and perhaps as much as 99 percent, is composed of Fritz Zwicky’s "dark matter"–stuff that is by its nature invisible to us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I saw long ago the whole universe as not-my-mother, and I glimpsed my place in it, a hole. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “The universe shines down with love,” I say. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z According to the Aristotelian philosophers, epicycles ought not really to exist: all movement in the heavens ought to be circular movement around the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I tried to imagine a universe in which someone as breathtaking as Rosalie would have any possible reason to feel jealous of someone like me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z So now I stood in the center of the center of the universe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The deflation would get faster and faster, the universe would get hotter and hotter, and it would eventually end in a backward big bang: the big crunch. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Want to give me a second chance here, universe? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The rules of the universe were fixed: You look a certain way and so you have to act a certain way and people are going to treat you a certain way. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Sandage, after years of careful calculations, arrived at a value for the Hubble constant of 50, giving the universe an age of 20 billion years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the Lucretian universe the gods are indifferent to human beings, and human beings are an accidental consequence of the random jostling together of atoms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “So this is what it was all about, a new constellation—new life in the universe,” I whispered, overwhelmed by the magic my sisters and I had helped the goddess create. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z A good example of this was Einstein, who called the cosmological constant, which he introduced when he was trying to make a static model of the universe, the biggest mistake of his life. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, everything in the universe moved in a circular path. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If the general picture of an expanding universe and a Big Bang is correct, we must then confront still more difficult questions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Used her imminent arrival and feeble attempt at murder as an exercise of his will against hers— an ultimatum to the universe. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z After Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe, there was no need for a cosmological constant and it is now generally believed to be zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In this parallel universe where my father never got out of the mines and I never got through college, I am “baby,” “honey,” “blondie,” and, most commonly, “girl.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If the universe truly oscillates, still stranger questions arise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a member of the Eleatic school of thought, whose founder, Parmenides, held that the underlying nature of the universe was changeless and immobile. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "The universe is a complex place," said Ishtar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Whether or not atoms make life in other corners of the universe, they make plenty else; indeed, they make everything else. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If this happened, the universe would be in an unstable state, with more energy than if the symmetry had been broken. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She had her own thoughts about the random and confusing nature of the universe. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Imagine we live in a three-dimensional universe, locally distorted by matter into a fourth physical dimension that we cannot perceive directly. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I hear him coming toward me in the snow, vaguely alarming, approaching like an arrow in a slowed-down universe, and a shudder runs through me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Does the universe in fact have a beginning or an end? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Recent evidence suggests that not only are the galaxies of the universe racing away from us, but that they are doing so at a rate that is accelerating. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Our message to the universe: I like short shorts. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Relativistic spaceflight makes the universe accessible to advanced civilizations, but only to those who go on the journey. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1983 two scientists suggested in Nature that tinkering with the energy of the vacuum might cause the universe to self-destruct. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There needn’t actually be a universe at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As for the argument from design, it was fundamentally different from the traditional Thomistic argument, which held that the universe was imbued with purpose, and that the ultimate purpose was to be found in God. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The answer is that the total energy of the universe is exactly zero. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex tried making deals with the universe, the way he usually did: “If I hold my breath to the count of thirty, he’ll get bored and stop.” Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The entire Ryan Dean West universe instantly collapsed to the size of a five-eighths-inch metal cleat stud, and everything I knew, everything I would ever know, got sucked into that pinpoint of agony. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was the first step outward to the universe—beyond the universe—because in it and with it we merged to recreate and perpetuate the human spirit. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream,” said the alchemist, echoing the words of the old king. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But out of the void, the universe was born, as was the infinite. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was as if my entire universe had been twisted inside out. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The universe would be in a state of almost complete disorder. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the classical theory of general relativity one cannot predict how the universe would have begun because all the known laws of science would have broken down at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In resigning themselves to the role of chronicling ever-changing usage, they are acknowledging the wisdom of Thomas Carlyle’s famous reply to Margaret Fuller’s statement “I accept the universe”: “Gad! She’d better.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s as if she isn’t sure of anything and this uniformed man behind the desk and the computer will have all the answers in the universe. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It soared with what seemed to me inexorable and dangerous purpose, as if there were no power in the universe that could stop it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And yet here he is, night after night, a welcome addition to the Ratliffs’ universe, doing just that. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It would be only natural to suppose that this order should apply not only to the laws, but also to the conditions at the boundary of space-time that specify the initial state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I saw myself swelling like bellows on their blood, a meaningless smudge in a universe dead as old wind over bones, abandoned except for the burnt-blood scent of the dragon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The wonder, as Stephen Hawking has noted, is that no one had hit on the idea of the expanding universe before. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z By 1700 every educated person was familiar with the idea that the universe might be infinite and that there were probably other inhabited worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The metric system merely completed a process that had begun with the invention of the telescope, which definitively destroyed the idea that the universe was made on the same scale as man. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine a universe just like Flatland, except that unbeknownst to the inhabitants, their two-dimensional universe is curved through a third physical dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The prejudice against a finite universe is ancient. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They could then have continued to claim that the earth stands still at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Conversely, if there was not a first event, then the universe must have always existed—and will always exist in the future. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They would say that God, being omnipotent, could have started the universe off any way he wanted. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The world has shattered, and all that’s left is this alternate universe full of broken people with nothing to hold on to. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It is difficult to see how such chaotic initial conditions could have given rise to a universe that is so smooth and regular on a large scale as ours is today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe will die a cold death, not a hot one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He says the universe is like a dot- covered balloon that’s being blown up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An infinite number of universes and an infinite amount of time, and we were able to meet each other. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The universe makes sense to me through Hindu eyes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Every New Englander knew the location of the universe’s seat of culture, and it was to Boston that she now journeyed with her flock. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It appears that the universe may not only be filled with dark matter, but with dark energy. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There is, for example, a universe where Samuel Kingsley does not derail his daughter’s life. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z If you really want to imagine something, try imagining what it would be like to empty every word from your head and then look at the universe. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z A static universe, as should have been obvious to Newton and every thinking astronomer since, would collapse in upon itself. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For six long years, that place was my universe. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z It was as if the universe understood this and was trying to prevent the blasphemy of my going. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Perhaps the universe should have deigned to provide such warnings, but scythes were no more supernatural than tax collectors in the grand scheme of things. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It represents an intellectual breakthrough: Digges was the first competent astronomer explicitly to propose an infinite universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There’s a universe where I went to school and am safely sitting in English class instead of almost being hit by a car. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When I see Neil’s face—it has to be Neil; the universe isn’t that cruel—things will fall into place once and for all. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Quantum mechanics, on the other hand, describes a jerky and discontinuous universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns & Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Given an event P, one can divide the other events in the universe into three classes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Using the no boundary condition, we find that the universe must in fact have started off with just the minimum possible non-uniformity allowed by the uncertainty principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Zwicky realized that after the collapse of such a star there would be a huge amount of energy left over enough to make the biggest bang in the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “The date wasn’t wrong, I just think that if the universe is setting us up here that our story deserves a more epic first date,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Her tone, aggrieved, aggravated, made it clear that this was simply one more cross the universe had asked her to bear. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z If we could observe them, it would provide a good test of this picture of a very hot early stage of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Earth’s special position at the center of the universe made it the only world capable of containing life, as Aristotle held that all objects sought out their proper place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Instead, there is a spin 0 field, which, because of quantum fluctuations, would have large values in some regions of the early universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like, maybe the universe is trying to save me from my destiny now that I’ve given up on saving myself. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I wrote a reply to his comment: We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z This could mean that we are at the center of a great region in the universe in which the sources are fewer than elsewhere. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe had a beginning, about 15 billion years in the past, and space has been expanding ever since. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But what would happen if and when the universe stopped expanding and began to contract? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncertainty makes the universe seethe with infinite energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A remarkable feature of the first kind of Friedmann model is that in it the universe is not infinite in space, but neither does space have any boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Alive as that pain in my chest expands like its own little universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Rumors spread like a diaspora of atoms in the knackery of the universe, always getting rendered into something else and something else. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We now know it is impossible to have an infinite static model of the universe in which gravity is always attractive. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Could there be something special about our location in the universe, as if the Milky Way had performed some inadvertent but offensive act in the social life of galaxies? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of my dad telling me that the universe wants to be noticed. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z You will stand there and think, I am in the center of the universe, where everything is sung to life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z No one else has ever strung this exact same combination of beads in the whole history of the universe. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Guth suggested that the universe started out from the big bang in a very hot, but rather chaotic, state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a strange and unsettling sight, like he was standing at the edge of the universe, and for a brief moment he was overcome by vertigo, his knees weakening before he steadied himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z But this isn’t my usual mall, which means it’s like stepping into a parallel universe. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z When Mr. Kumar visited the zoo, it was to take the pulse of the universe, and his stethoscopic mind always confirmed to him that everything was in order, that everything was order. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z A piece of paper large enough to have all the zeroes in a googolplex written out explicitly could not be stuffed into the known universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse yet, if the universe were infinite, then there could be no center. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I let the universe tell me where to go. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Men who make Committees and go around stealing mothers and hurting them, they’re just red ants killing black ants in a giant universe that has tornadoes bigger than the biggest thing we have ever built. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Some think that the laws of nature are then randomly reshuffled, that the kind of physics and chemistry that orders this universe represent only one of an infinite range of possible natural laws. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This division of the contents of the universe into matter and forces is still used today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at it another way, if you had a film of the universe’s history and ran the film backward, the universe would shrink and shrink. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Some scientists toyed with the idea that the spiral nebulae were not distant island universes but rather nearby condensing clouds of interstellar gas, perhaps on their way to make solar systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One could say: “The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was Virgil, not the universe. You can see how shy he is. He carries a rodent in his backpack, Gen. A rodent.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Your Atman will fly from the web of human desire and join the collective consciousness—the infinite soul that suffuses the universe, at once everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Maybe dogs were one of the secrets of the universe. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Might there be a universe in which Descartes’ third law of nature actually holds? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A warmth of calmness spread through his chest, and for the first time since he’d found himself there, he didn’t feel like the Glade was the worst place in the universe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I’m sure Arthur is changing his tune about the universe after that marching band broke us apart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I offered up a silent thank- you to the universe. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z At the big bang and other singularities, all the laws would have broken down, so God would still have had complete freedom to choose what happened and how the universe began. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This means, as Stephen Hawking has observed with a touch of understandable excitement, that one cannot "predict future events exactly if one cannot even measure the present state of the universe precisely!" A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But how did he choose the initial state or configuration of the universe? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We weren’t perfect, but we still had hope we’d make it across the universe and make our ancestors proud.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Do you think aliens are a lot more advanced than humans, or do you think they’d look at us and think we were the Japan of the universe?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Even some of Copernicus’ admirers argued that he had not really believed in a Sun-centered universe but had merely proposed it as a convenience for calculating the motions of the planets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This explains why the universe is relatively smooth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Most people would find the picture of our universe as an infinite tower of tortoises rather ridiculous, but why do we think we know better? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe took my dad and brother away. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But in what alternate universe do I belong in the debate club? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z This in turn led to the idea that the universe could be finite in imaginary time but without boundaries or singularities. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sorry, but what kind of alternate universe did I just step into? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I’m right for him and he’s right for me and that feels beyond right—the universe knew it was love before we did. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It did not say how the laws should be chosen and it did not specify the initial configuration of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There a friend and colleague of mine, Jim Hartle, worked out with me what conditions the universe must satisfy if space-time had no boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But even when all these are added in, "two-thirds of the universe is still missing from the balance sheet," as one commentator has put it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When I was looking at this film over and over again, I had an erroneous view of the universe that communication takes place between people. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z General relativity holds sway in the realm of the very, very big: the most massive objects in the universe, such as stars, solar systems, and galaxies. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Hoyle favored a steady-state theory in which the universe was constantly expanding and continually creating new matter as it went. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Like salmon swimming upstream, or the universe expanding...or contracting...or whatever it does, I guess. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Second, any model that described the whole universe in detail would be much too complicated mathematically for us to be able to calculate exact predictions. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "Okay, I'll give you a pass on that, but only this once. If you ever say anything about my brother again, you'll be left with absolutely zero friends in the universe." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s the one person in the universe allowed to bypass all of our security. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Thus there must have been initial configurations that would not have given rise to a universe like the one we see today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fine. That works too. Girls think you have your finger on some hidden pulse of the universe. Like you’re misunderstood.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the discovery of the microwave radiation by Penzias and Wilson in 1965 also indicated that the universe must have been much denser in the past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t think the gods would be even a little upset to find out that their entire universe was stamped out?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Presumably, in the very early universe all the dimensions would have been very curved. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When the density and gravity become sufficiently high, the black hole winks out and disappears from our universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe definitely wasn’t trying to help me out today, otherwise I’d probably be texting Arthur instead of looking up my ex-boyfriend. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z At the same time, the universe is not too lumpy; it looks roughly the same in all directions, so all the matter did not wind up in one huge glob. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The universe is a big and lonely place. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We know now that our universe—or at least its most recent incarnation—is some fifteen or twenty billion years old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Want to give me a second chance here, universe? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z For some reason, I don’t like the way this sounds, as if a universe could exist in which I wouldn’t know Finch. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “He has a quote, 'The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.’ Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The memory, clear as a light beam, took Obinze back to a time when he still believed the universe would bend according to his will. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Aristotle’s universe is finite and spherical; moreover, it is not surrounded by infinite space and there is no such thing as empty space. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the jockey’s risky universe, everyone understood that some rider was going to profit from Pollard’s loss. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about as far away from the Perfect House that you can get and still be in the same universe. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The universe, it seems, is on my side the next morning, because when I wake up in the body of Megan Powell, I also wake up a mere hour away from Rhiannon. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It was an obscure specialization, but the candlelit and treacherous universe in which they moved—of sin unpunished, of innocence destroyed—was one I found appealing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Had gravity been a trifle stronger, the universe itself might have collapsed like a badly erected tent without precisely the right values to give it the right dimensions and density and component parts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This suggested that the red shift was instead caused by the expansion of the universe, which, in turn, meant that the object was a very long distance away. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, of all the models that were roughly like the real universe, only Friedmann’s would contain a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It just exploded into an instantaneous universe of knowing looks and giggles and clothes and secrets. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z If the expansion is slowing down rapidly, then it’s a good sign that the energy from the big bang is nearly spent; our universe would be heading for a big crunch. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It may be that our universe is merely part of many larger universes, some in different dimensions, and that Big Bangs are going on all the time all over the place. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was just like being out freezing in the woods, how all you wanted in the universe was to curl up under a tree and fall asleep. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z There followed a terrible war between Cronus, helped by his brother Titans, against Zeus with his five brothers and sisters—a war that almost wrecked the universe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A universe in which there were two earths within one sphere of water was no longer an Aristotelian universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We believe it only on grounds of modesty: it would be most remarkable if the universe looked the same in every direction around us, but not around other points in the universe! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since each of the three superstates is unconquerable, each is in effect a separate universe within which almost any perversion of thought can be safely practiced. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If you stood in a two-dimensional universe you would only be perceived at the point of intersection, you’d be perceived as two oblong discs, two two-dimensional universes, seven-dimensional ones. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In short, there isn’t a great deal that goes on in the universe that astronomers can’t find when they have a mind to. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Like that of the Babylonians, the Pythagorean universe seems more a construction based on mysticism and aesthetics than the result of empirical study. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z She needed to let go and she needed to grab on, and she needed to stand directly in the center of the universe that almost wasn’t. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z This abandoned library parking lot was like an alternate universe where everyone really cared about raw eggs, and holding hands was a totally acceptable thing to do. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Second, what is the role of God in the making of the universe? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Finn had decided that succotash was the funniest word in the universe. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The mysteries of the universe mean nothing to him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z This truth is that at the very beginning of time there was not one white face to be found in all the universe. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Everything had a grand purpose, and there was nothing amiss in the universe; it was our job to adjust to whatever came our way. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The upshot of all this is that physics ended up with two bodies of laws–one for the world of the very small, one for the universe at large–leading quite separate lives. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “My dad is the worst driver in the universe,” he said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z They thought about numbers a lot, and shapes, and the size of the universe. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was always so pleasant, chaotic, emotionless, nameless—everything vibrating so beautifully in the universe without words. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Can you imagine how unlikely it is for any two creatures to cross each other in a universe as big as this one? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z At the zeros of the universe, logic fails. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The zero of a black hole is a singularity, an open wound in the fabric of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Titans, often called the Elder Gods, were for untold ages supreme in the universe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the motor that drove the magic universe that was the rear section of the big house on the corner, where Alba spent her first seven years in complete freedom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z How then could we tell whether the real universe should have started out with a big bang? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no atoms and no universe for them to float about in. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At first, I believed that disorder would decrease when the universe recollapsed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early universe, space was brilliantly illuminated. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the kind of anger that comes when you feel betrayed by not just a single person, but the universe. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In less than a minute the universe is a million billion miles across and growing fast. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The universe keeps on swinging—brass knuckles to the heart and ego. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It’s like I’m a part of the whole fabric of the universe—the air, the water, the music, the colors, the shapes, and me right in the middle. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He said that love and dark matter were the same—the only thing that kept the universe from flying apart. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Astronomers have begun to measure the change in the universe’s expansion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "That's the way God made the universe, without beginning or end, in all directions." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z If the universe were expanding faster in some directions than in others, the intensity of the radiation in those directions would be reduced by an additional red shift. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment like that all the universe would have to conspire to move all its pieces and line them up just so. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But Digges’s universe has a centre, so it is not really infinite, for an infinite universe could have no centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z First, there are the laws that tell us how the universe changes with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My understanding of the universe was physical, and its moral arc bent toward chaos then concluded in a box. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Greek universe, created by Pythagoras, Aristotle, and Ptolemy, survived long after the collapse of Greek civilization. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that the vast majority of the universe is composed of dark matter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The secret he revealed shook the very foundations of the Pythagorean doctrine, but by considering the irrational an anomaly, the Pythagoreans could keep the irrationals from contaminating their view of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was said that each of the six gods had been born from the universe’s own teardrop, three drops each from two eyes to create six immortal beings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I listened as the inmate’s voice rose; it was powerful yet broken, amid the weeping, the sobbing, the sighing of the entire “congregation”: “All the earth and universe are God’s!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A zero in quantum mechanics means that the entire universe—including the vacuum—is filled with an infinite amount of energy: the zero-point energy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At the end of it all, maybe he’d come back to me and tell me everything he’d seen, along with a few more secrets about the universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Perhaps the universe is just a quantum fluctuation on a grand scale—an enormous singular particle that came into existence out of the ultimate vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z You would need to travel faster than light in order to end up where you started before the universe came to an end—and that is not allowed! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like the window to another universe. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The early universe was filled with radiation and a plenum of matter, originally hydrogen and helium, formed from elementary particles in the dense primeval fireball. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z According to this theory, there are either many different universes or many different regions of a single universe, each with its own initial configuration and, perhaps, with its own set of laws of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Phil and I are totally different, but at the core, we share something that made the pond our little self-contained universe. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z This would mean that the universe was only half the size and age that Sandage believed–ten billion years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was first thought to be hot intergalactic hydrogen, an immense amount of it never before seen, perhaps enough to close the Cosmos and to guarantee that we are trapped in an oscillating universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the start of the 1970s, then, we were forced to turn our search for an understanding of the universe from our theory of the extraordinarily vast to our theory of the extraordinarily tiny. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know those doors were actually some sort of portal into a narrow, parallel universe where rules are carved into tablets of stone and ideas haven’t changed for a couple thousand years. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z That we live in a universe which permits life is remarkable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Both words, at today’s stage of their evolution, can be taken together to mean, literally, everything in the universe. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z An explosion, an expansion of stars and galaxies and planets and suns, our little planet with all our little lives, and then everything turning to dust, until nothing in this universe exists anymore at all. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z It is, moreover, very difficult to explain in any other way why there should be so much helium in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The cosmological constant’s push would balance out gravity’s pull; instead of collapsing, the universe could stay in a steady balance, neither collapsing nor expanding. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For all we know, there may be many other universes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the universe had wanted her to be able to store her collection safely. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The sublunary world, the world this side of the moon, is the world of generation and corruption—the rest of the universe has existed unchanging from all eternity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These high temperatures would have meant that the particles in the universe would be moving very fast and would have high energies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That light would not have disappeared as the balloon universe expanded; it would instead have gotten stretched out as the rubber fabric of space-time stretched. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The universe isn’t doing anything, Kaori. If it was, then it wouldn’t...” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He watched Javier wordlessly as he called his mother, and Moss sent out a silent thanks to the universe, to whomever might be listening. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The eventual goal of science is to provide a single theory that describes the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, one cannot adopt it on its own, independent of other ideas about the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But he trusted in the old man, who had said that, when you really want something, the universe always conspires in your favor. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s grief for his brother was as real as if it were a stranger who lived with us, a stranger who had taken my place in the center of the universe. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It was the gaze of a seer, of a holy oracle whose power and authority were drawn from the very universe. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The bubbles were supposed to expand and meet up with each other until the whole universe was in the new phase. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the smartest kid in the universe and his superintelligent best friend sounded like kindergartners. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Could this message from the universe be any clearer? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I’ve spent my life observing the universe, mostly in my mind's eye. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The big bang had been spotted; the myth of the static universe was dead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like Aristotle, he implicitly assumed that the universe was static, constant, and eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I was stuck in another small town, trapped in another universe populated by the kind of people who’d only ever seen faces like mine on their evening news, and I hated it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z That was almost like a game I was playing with the universe. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The ideas about scientific theories outlined above assume we are rational beings who are free to observe the universe as we want and to draw logical deductions from what we see. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pythagoras’s doctrine became the centerpiece of Western philosophy: all the universe was governed by ratios and shapes; the planets moved in heavenly spheres that made music as they turned. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Like, one day she kind of poofed in from a different universe. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The very early stages of the universe, however, are an arena where such energies must have occurred. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, in the quantum theory of gravity, there are many different possible quantum states for the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the Semitic biblical cosmos toppled the Aristotelian one, the idea of an eternal, unchanging universe was not expunged completely, enduring even to the twentieth century. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Einstein’s hope for a steady, eternal universe was all but dead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was like I had entered the portal to a different dimension, an alternate universe in which Auggie and I had changed places. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Up to now, most scientists have been too occupied with the development of new theories that describe what the universe is to ask the question why. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Atoms will drift apart and get rearranged in the great knackery of the universe. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Like the universe was telling me that in order for me to make something of this life, I’d have to leave home, my neighborhood, my friends. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It turned out that coming from such far corners of the social universe had its downsides. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He thinks: The universe is full of fuel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes the universe conspires to help those in need. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This expansion is said to be “inflationary,” meaning that the universe at one time expanded at an increasing rate rather than the decreasing rate that it does today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This means that for every choice you make, an infinite number of universes exist in which you made a different choice. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z To the ancients, zero’s mathematical properties were inexplicable, as shrouded in mystery as the birth of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It’s like the universe is trying to make him my boyfriend, which is messed up. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z If the universe is destined to go on expanding forever, the temperature of the microwave radiation will eventually decrease to less than that of such a black hole, which will then begin to lose mass. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the force of the universe dropping on them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When Christianity swept through the West, it became closely tied to the Aristotelian view of the universe and the proof of God’s existence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Every time I try to wrap my mind around the concept of the universe, my mind spins as if caught in a whirlpool of information I will never be able to understand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z However, he does say that understanding the universe is comparable to the problem of understanding a clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He wants me to imagine what a three- dimensional universe would look like to someone who was perfectly flat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A candidate star must be ten to twenty times as massive as our own Sun and "we don’t have anything of the requisite size that’s that close. The universe is a mercifully big place." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z In order to talk about the nature of the universe and to discuss questions such as whether it has a beginning or an end, you have to be clear about what a scientific theory is. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe wouldn’t get us together for just one summer, right? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z This discovery supported Einstein’s idea that the universe could be bent back on itself. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z There were still a few hands up, including Jules’s and Aileen’s, but Mr. Hale went on about the battle in Milton’s mind between individualism and the moral order of a Christian universe. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The universe would therefore look roughly the same at all times as well as at all points of space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This assumes that the universe is described by a Friedmann model, right back to the big bang. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This picture of a hot early stage of the universe was first put forward by the scientist George Gamow in a famous paper written in 1948 with a student of his, Ralph Alpher. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Most ancient peoples believed that only emptiness and chaos were present before the universe came to be. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As unappealing as the idea of a finite universe was, physicists gradually accepted the big bang and agreed that the universe had a beginning. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I sometimes felt as if I were floating through a strange universe, waving at strangers who acted as if they knew me, boarding planes that lifted me out of my normal world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Did I wake up in an alternate universe?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z In one, the universe is created, somehow, ten or twenty billion years ago and expands forever, the galaxies mutually receding until the last one disappears over our cosmic horizon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Will the universe eventually stop expanding and start contracting, or will it expand forever? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In such models one finds that as the universe expands, any matter or radiation in it gets cooler. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One can also use the sum over histories, along with the no boundary proposal, to find which properties of the universe are likely to occur together. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I could sketch the landscape, draw a final cartoon of me giving the middle finger to the universe, then bite the big one. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z “That’s the best name ever. I mean ever in the history of the universe and the world. I totally love it.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z So they were trying to reinvent themselves and their universe. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded like the entire universe was cracking in half. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z To the Pythagorean mind, ratios controlled the universe, and what was true for the Pythagoreans soon became true for the entire West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He told us that God himself had created the diversity of the universe and that his plan was for unity, not separateness. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Thus the universe can double the amount of positive matter energy and also double the negative gravitational energy without violation of the conservation of energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z More over, even though hemoglobin was not the center of the universe, Francis’ previous two years at the Cavendish certainly had not been dull. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the poster, these words appeared—Do I dare disturb the universe? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s the astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of dark matter,” I said, “the invisible stuff that makes up the universe.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Further, one of my students, Raymond Laflamme, found that in a slightly more complicated model, the collapse of the universe was very different from the expansion. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The thermodynamic and psychological arrows of time would not reverse when the universe begins to recontract, or inside black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing in his argument which might imply that the Earth was just another planet, or that the universe had not been created for the benefit of human beings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the lifetime of the universe there has apparently not been enough time for an initial gravitational nonuniformity to collect the amount of mass that seems to reside in the Virgo supercluster. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In Pythagoras’s day, before the age of zero, pure logic reigned supreme, The universe was predictable and orderly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Many Ionians believed the underlying harmony of the universe to be accessible through observation and experiment, the method that dominates science today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Malik insists that Jar Jar Binks should be a verb, adjective, and an adverb to describe whack stuff because Jar Jar Binks is the worst character in the Star Wars universe. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Aristotle believed that all the matter in the universe was made_up of four basic elements—earth, air, fire, and water. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes the nonburning end into his mouth and there he is, best ruddy dog in the universe, ready to carry fire to the enemy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Even if the whole universe did not recollapse, there would be singularities in any localized regions that collapsed to form black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For them, as we saw in Chapter 9, the argument from design depended on envisaging the universe as manufactured, rather than on showing nature itself to be purposive. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When most people believed in an essentially static and unchanging universe, the question of whether or not it had a beginning was really one of metaphysics or theology. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What is this amazing cyberspace that has become a kind of parallel universe? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z But she felt whole universes burst behind her vision, making it alternately light, then dark, then light, then dark. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z It was like there was some parallel universe we all vanished off to where we had all this sex. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One has to use a quantum theory of gravity to understand how the universe began. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since temperature is simply a measure of the average energy—or speed—of the particles, this cooling of the universe would have a major effect on the matter in it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z This cosmic egg would explode, inflate, and create the space-time of our universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This is the only religious idea I know that surpasses the endless number of infinitely old cycling universes in Hindu cosmology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristotle rejected the creation of the universe out of the void because he believed that the void could never exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I’m afraid of a hundred things, including you, Ethan, because everything in the universe says it’s not right, but that doesn’t keep me from wanting it. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Over the next decade, Hubble tackled two of the most fundamental questions of the universe: how old is it, and how big? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On the other, what if this is a sign from the universe or something? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Everything in the universe says it’s not right. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z For every event at the quantum level, the current universe splits into multiple universes. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z A galaxy that was just one of billions of other galaxies in the observable universe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As the universe gets smaller and smaller, it heats up more and more. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z God was always unoccupied in Finny’s universe, ready to lend an ear any time at all. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z For thousands of years humans were oppressed—as some of us still are—by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z May the blaze and blast be glorious, and the universe welcoming. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z None of them would ever really understand the universe, including Roz. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And everything vaporized into the nameless chaos of my twenty-miles-per-second universe. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Among the Sufis there is a teaching that the universe has never been created and consequently cannot be destroyed. I have spent the afternoon,” Luke announced gravely, “browsing in our little library.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z It is hard to reconstruct in our minds a mental universe where Pascal’s explanation seems obviously unsatisfactory and an explanation in terms of nature’s purposes seems obviously preferable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Don’t you kiss your wife, Chino? Dag,” Negra said, but I felt so useless and stupid that I didn’t want to disturb the universe or Blanca anymore. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The universe was expanding, swiftly and evenly in all directions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As 1 shall describe, the prospects for finding such a theory seem to be much better now because we know so much more about the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t. My mom doesn’t even let me wear makeup—in what alternate universe would she ever be okay with me going to a party?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Basically, due to certain mysterious circumstances, I'm now out to my whole family and will soon be out to the whole freaking universe. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He didn’t want his father’s universe to be disturbed and he wanted his own to be put in order again. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He is the eternal urge of desire establishing the purposes of all creatures. He is an infinite patience, a tender care that nothing in the universe be vain.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It was damaging, and the universe was suffering because of it, and she must talk to Will and Lyra and find a way to stop it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We are out and we are alive, and everyone in the universe is out here right now. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Dicke and Peebles argued that we should still be able to see the glow of the early universe, because light from very distant parts of it would only just be reaching us now. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But we live in an in-between universe, where things change, but according to patterns, rules, or, as we call them, laws of nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A universe divided what she had from what I had. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Keeper of lost things, guide us to what we seek. We send this heartfelt request to the universe of granted wishes.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z But gram for gram, nothing in the universe comes close to the green speckled recluse; among other spiders, compared with the green speckled recluse, the black widow was a rag doll. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The solution Godel found doesn’t correspond to the universe we live in because we can show that the universe is not rotating. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Where the Aristotelian universe had one centre, there were now potentially five different ways of defining the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s just that why does the earth stay in place instead of falling through the universe?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We lie next to each other in silence all night, looking up at the impossible mind-blowing awesomeness of the universe, and I don’t think either of us sleeps a minute. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s been in her head, deep in memories, lost in a pain universe, and the world seemed like a faraway thing. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The Big Bang released so much energy that the universe has been expanding outward from it for more than thirteen billion years. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The question remains, however: how or why were the laws and the initial state of the universe chosen? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So yes, I’m definitely attracted to her, but there’s something else too, and I’m not just saying that because she has the nicest legs in the known universe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z If we were to stop asking questions, then how would we ever uncover the unknowns of the universe? Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The work of Lifshitz and Khalatnikov was valuable because it showed that the universe could have had a singularity, a big bang, if the general theory of relativity was correct. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Later work has also cast doubt on whether there could be a phase transition in the very early universe of the kind required. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fastest kiss in the history of the universe.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There’s this exciting hope of possibility filling me up, like when Hudson and I started texting for the first time, like when Arthur said hi and we flirted and talked about the universe. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z And so, in that Greek letter that looks like a shack with a corrugated tin roof, in that elusive, irrational number with which scientists try to understand the universe, I found refuge. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a time in the very early universe when it was so hot that the particle energies would have been high enough for these transformations to take place. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Among much else, Einstein’s general theory of relativity suggested that the universe must be either expanding or contracting. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Oh God, King of the universe, thank you for not creating me a man. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out to be very difficult to devise a theory to describe the universe all in one go. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The machine of the world is thus the stable structure of our universe: the heavens, the earth and the four elements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Where did the universe come from, and where is it going? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And because of the special features necessary for our form of life, that’s the universe we inhabit. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Friedmann made two very simple assumptions about the universe: that the universe looks identical in whichever direction we look, and that this would also be true if we were observing the universe from anywhere else. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hubble’s observations suggested that there was a time, called the big bang, when the universe was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In such a scheme it is reasonable to suppose that we might progress ever closer toward the laws that govern our universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z However, everything in the universe is conspiring to stop you from actually reaching absolute zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I started to think a lot about infinity, and what it was like there, and how all the postulates and theorems and principles were true across all the universe. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z All those eyes on me—the town, the whole universe — and I couldn’t risk the embarrassment. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. I believe it. I know that you will fail. There is something in the universe—I don’t know, some spirit, some principle—that you will never overcome.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z God might have created such a warped universe but we have no reason to believe he did. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists just assume that we can’t really be the center of the universe–think what that would imply–but that the phenomenon must be the same for all observers in all places. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was he who first used the word Cosmos to denote a well-ordered and harmonious universe, a world amenable to human understanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I am an expanding universe swimming upward in a silent sea. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z But he was able to develop on observational grounds something akin to the modern cosmic perspective: What a wonderful and Amazing scheme have we here of the magnificant vastness of the universe ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Increase all dimensions by one, and you have the situation that may apply to us: the universe as a four-dimensional hypersphere with no center and no edge, and nothing beyond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be a large number of models of the universe with different initial conditions that all obey the laws. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In a larger sense art, like science and religion, fulfills our innate urge to comprehend ourselves and the universe. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Every theorem in Euclidean geometry can be dualized in projective geometry, setting up a whole set of new theorems in the parallel universe of projective geometry. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This expert from the universe of the Grand Concourse w'as attracted to the table at which I was holding court by the singularity and magnetism of my being. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To understand Einstein’s universe, we have to accept the idea that time is the fourth dimension. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Their model of the universe involved the "celestial spheres" creating a kind of harmony as they moved in circles dictated by the same arithmetical relationships as musical harmonies. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z So the universe does seem to be roughly the same in every direction, provided one views it on a large scale compared to the distance between galaxies, and ignores the differences on small scales. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes tightly and made a frantic deal with the universe. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z There ought to be some principle that picks out one initial state, and hence one model, to represent our universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But need the angle of reflection be equal to the angle of incidence in any universe? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Their gravitational attraction would thus curve up the universe to infinitely small size. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dante became one more mystery in a universe full of mysteries. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Thus Smoot is tempted to conclude that the Big Bang was much less uniform than his other observations suggest, that the original distribution of matter in the universe was very lumpy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But the universe is vast, and supernovae are normally much too far away to harm us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So we may, if we wish, use the weak anthropic principle to explain why the universe looks the way it does now. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The vendor handed me the boots—black rubber with zigzag soles, just like Papito’s—and I was the happiest girl in the universe. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I go in a hushed voice like I’ve just stepped into an alternate universe. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z To people like Jud and Frank, who were there every time the doors opened, it was the nexus of the universe. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z These words felt like some kind of sacrifice, a precious offering to the universe. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Only if the early universe was very smooth and uniform, with a high pressure, can one explain the absence of observable numbers of primordial black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole Greek universe rested upon this pillar: there is no void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There are ways to find out: by making an accurate census of the total amount of matter in the universe, or by seeing to the edge of the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the equations of general relativity, the universe was unstable. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The collapse of a star to form a black hole is rather like the later stages of the collapse of the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is this interaction of the elements which makes living creatures possible, and without it the universe would be sterile. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They brim with foreboding, bitter warnings, and hints at your importance in the universe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dividing by zero once—just one time—allows you to prove, mathematically, anything at all in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z "Still," I said, "there's your universe, and that drip-drop upon the water you hear is all the history you've made, all you're going to make. Now laugh, you scientists. Let's hear you laugh!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The serpent keeps recurring through the earliest cycles of mythology, always as a central symbol for the life of the universe and the continuity of creation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d talked about the number of events that had to go exactly right to form their universe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Whoosh—air’s being sucked out of the universe, making a vacuum. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z And for good reason: of everybody in the universe, Daddy’s the person who knows me best. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z But which then, in all these endless universes, nested within one another, would be the real Pascal? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one’s sense of one’s own reality. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z No longer was the earth comfortably ensconced in the center of the universe; there was no shell containing the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The universe was endless, and love had its own logic. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When you think about it, the universe is nothing but this vast knackery of churning black holes and exploding stars, constantly freeing atoms that collect together and become something else, and something else again. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z This could then explain why the rate of expansion is still so close to the critical rate, without having to assume that the initial rate of expansion of the universe was very carefully chosen. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the nothingness of the vacuum and the zero- point energy spawn particles, they might spawn universes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I stood there admiring the work my brother and Zooey had put into creating a perfect little corner of the universe for their family. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z However, our uncertainty about the present average density of the universe is even greater. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, Cartesians held that the universe was a plenum: it was full. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Don’t want to? Of course you wants to! What could be finer? I don’t think there’s a soul in the universe doesn’t want to be just like us.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Unfazed, I presented my revelation that in the principles and theorems and axioms of plane geometry—these truths that stayed true across the universe—God had sent us a message. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But if they do, must they always hook up with another place in our universe? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In an infinite universe, every point can be regarded as the center, because every point has an infinite number of stars on each side of it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That he was only the smartest kid in the universe because, one night, he wolfed down the first sugary snack he could find without exerting any effort. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z For both, the sun was just one star among an uncountable multitude, and the universe was, if not infinite, at least without any known limit. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Maybe the universe wants to make you work for it,” she says finally. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z However, any human beings who were observing the cups would be living in a universe in which disorder decreased with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no up or down in a finite but expanding universe in which even the vast, burning, dazzling, majestic sun was in a state of progressive decay that would eventually destroy the earth too. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “You, my friends, are not the center of this or any other known universe.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z These laws may have originally been decreed by God, but it appears that he has since left the universe to evolve according to them and does not now intervene in it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By rejecting zero, the Greek philosophers gave their view of the universe the durability to survive for two millennia. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The universe is not expanding in an inflationary way today. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z So, trying desperately not to disturb the universe, Hazel took her place in her usual desk, third row from the back, right next to the window where she liked it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “I believe we are living in a moral universe. If we continue to demonstrate and pay the price, then we will succeed.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “But what if the universe is actually telling you to throw his stuff away?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z There it is again—the pull of the ocean, the song of the universe. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I felt awkward and guilty about avoiding him, as though every sorrow in my universe had spilled out of his pen, and that he was to blame for everything. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Their only drawback would be that the fabric of the universe would fall apart. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I think about how Arthur and I talked about the universe, and he comes back into focus. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe cannot have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It also had a non-zero value of the cosmological constant that Einstein introduced when he thought the universe was unchanging. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Irina Rakobolskaya, who grew up in the “generation not from this universe,” was twenty years old and in her third year as a physics student at Moscow University when the Great Patriotic War broke out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And I don’t want to jump to conclusions or anything, but Box Boy believing in the universe is definitely a sign from the universe. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Space and time not only affect but also are affected by everything that happens in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just picturing her in her satin gown and a Congolese diamond digger in the same universe gave me the weebie jeebies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The secrets of the universe buried themselves in unusual and beautiful objects such as these, and only a select few could pull those secrets out. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z For from this almost Nothing I have very nearly recreated the entire universe, which contains everything! The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Under a cloudless blue sky stretched a breath-taking glittering universe, carved of dazzling white coral, unreal and silent. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Copernicus held that not just the solar system but the entire universe was heliocentric, and Kepler denied that the stars have planetary systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Pascal and Boyle were then hailed as the discoverers of the vacuum which, it was now held, made up most of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At early times the universe would probably be in a disordered state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But suppose instead that the universe is expanding. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The history of the universe in real time, however, would look very different. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And the galaxies are younger than the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One possible answer is to say that God chose the initial configuration of the universe for reasons that we cannot hope to understand. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think the universe wanted us to meet?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z My universe gradually began expanding, but so did the agony. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As time runs forward, the universe expands and expands. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But it would also revolutionize the ordinary person’s understanding of the laws that govern the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In that singing, relaxed kind of voice she had that made everything sound painless, like it didn’t matter, like there were no big deals anywhere in the universe. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If the universe is indeed spatially infinite, or if there are infinitely many universes, there would probably be some large regions somewhere that started out in a smooth and uniform manner. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, his universe is shaped by his theology. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Luckily, grand unified theories may provide an explanation of why the universe should now contain more quarks than antiquarks, even if it started out with equal numbers of each. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Tamika was coming over later and we were going to brainstorm possible experiments for our YouTube channel, Science Rocks, hosted by the two greatest scientists in the universe, after Einstein, of course. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I rest my head on his shoulder and tell him about going to the museum and Ahnighito and all the things that had to go right for our solar system, galaxy, and universe to form. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Felicia feels as though she were in love again, at the center of the universe, privy to its secrets and inner workings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For technical reasons, Penrose’s theorem required that the universe be infinite in space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The most elegant and sublime of these is a representation of the creation of the universe at the beginning of each cosmic cycle, a motif known as the cosmic dance of Shiva. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirdly, space exploration would bring an unprecedented opportunity to expand the body of human knowledge about the universe, prompted the pamphlet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I seemed to see the whole universe, even the sun and sky, leaping forward, then sinking away again, decomposing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t disturb the universe, Goober, no matter what the posters say. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not rogue comets, not black holes, not the heat death of the universe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z If the universe could not spring forth from the void, then something had to be floating about before the birth of the universe; there had to be a universe before the universe was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Where would your head be if it were no longer in the universe? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z According to the theory of inflationary cosmology, empty space can spawn other big bangs, creating a vast number of other universes: a multiverse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z What if, we said, what if in another universe, a split reality, God reached out his finger and lightning struck the Clairmont house? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “It’s okay. You will. The universe is shining with love, baby. To survive this night—that’s what you need—love.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z They had found the edge of the universe, or at least the visible part of it, 90 billion trillion miles away. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Any number can be written as a string of zeros and ones; to Leibniz, this was the creation ex nihilo, the creation of the universe out of nothing more than God/1 and void/0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I’ve visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and decide that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In principle, such a journey, mounting the decimal points ever closer to the speed of light, would even permit us to circumnavigate the known universe in some fifty-six years ship time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Had they come out of the great star-scattered black entirety that was the universe? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Its most daring feature was the proposition that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the great pendulum in its rotunda scribing through the long day movements of the universe of which you may say it knows nothing and yet know it must. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Even though the universe would have zero size at the North and South Poles, these points would not be singularities, any more than the North and South Poles on the earth are singular. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For everything in the universe to be governed by ratios, as the Pythagoreans hoped, everything that made sense in the universe had to be related to a nice, neat proportion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The same law of gravity applies everywhere in the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z —Phathmus Mouzaive: natural philosopher; liked to declare that his field was no less than “the physical laws of the universe,” but whose focus, in reality, was somewhat narrower: magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Moreover, this axis was not the north-south axis of the poles but an axis through Jerusalem and the geometrical centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Inflation theory explains the ripples and eddies that make our universe possible. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The story of these fundamental features of our universe is called physics. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Our modern picture of the universe dates back to only 1924, when the American astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated that ours was not the only galaxy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet as big as those numbers were, they were finite—and were more than enough to fill the universe to overflowing with sand. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Finally, there is a third kind of solution, in which the universe is expanding only just fast enough to avoid recollapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad said, smiling like he thought he got me the greatest present in the whole universe. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z For the universe at large, matters are naturally magnified. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z While physicists in the middle decades of the twentieth-century were looking perplexedly into the world of the very small, astronomers were finding no less arresting an incompleteness of understanding in the universe at large. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Cartesian universe is not made for man; the Boylean universe is. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All his life and all his studies were aimed at finding the one true language of the universe. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that the difficulty with the bubbles not joining up could be avoided if the bubbles were so big that our region of the universe is all contained inside a single bubble. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl Sagan calculated the number of probable planets in the universe at large at 10 billion trillion–a number vastly beyond imagining. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Despite its distinctiveness even in East Asia at that time, Jomon Japan was not a completely isolated universe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In Galileo’s famous words, which provide the epigraph to this chapter, the book of the universe is written in geometrical figures. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When it's time for the universe to speak, it will. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It is misleading to describe the expansion of the universe as a sort of distending bubble viewed from the outside. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the darkness wanted us to be still and see the universe from a different point of view. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z So the question is: if the universe starts out without the kind of curvature required for time travel, can we subsequently warp local regions of space-time sufficiently to allow it? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It must be because the universe is trying to keep you on your diet. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z And maybe the universe is speaking through my dad right now to encourage me to do the same. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z It was as if he had forgotten where he stood in the universe and only those words coming from Vera could reorient him to his place in the cosmos. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The universe would have started off with a period of exponential or “inflationary” expansion in which it would have increased its size by a very large factor. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Linde’s idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good, but I later realized that his bubbles would have to have been bigger than the size of the universe at the time! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking wistfully at the poster, he pondered the damaged words: Do I dare disturb the universe? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But of course the universe does not conspire to put you in one place rather than another, Colin knew. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Galaxies would become ever more distant from one another, and the star stuff that drives all the energetic reactions in the universe would become more rarefied. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I can't even begin to imagine what mysterious circumstances led to your being outed to the universe, but it doesn't sound pleasant, and I know it's not what you wanted. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z As they expanded and the matter particles got farther apart, one would be left with an expanding universe that contained hardly any particles and was still in the supercooled state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I zip into my universe dress—the greatest thrift store find of my entire life. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z They contribute previously unknown mass to the universe as well. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the 1980s physicists suggested that the zero-point energy in the early universe was greater than it is today. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like being in the middle of a swirling universe that could swamp him in a moment but had no desire to. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The idea of inflation could also explain why there is so much matter in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his followers believed that numbers were the ruling principle of the universe, and that musical harmonies were a basic expression of the mathematical laws of the universe. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “The universe shines down with love,” I say, repeating Mama Ya-Ya’s words. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing much going on here this weekend, other than the fact that every freaking thing in the universe reminds me of you. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe--so I decided to go east and learn the bond business. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z There was no infinity, no void—just beautiful spheres that surrounded the earth, which was naturally placed at the very center of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z By the third century bce, Eratosthenes was heir to a rich heritage of possible universes. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It would seem that these two theories could live in harmony together, each dictating the rules of physics for different aspects of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The rules of mathematics were built around counting sheep and surveying property, yet these very rules govern the way the universe works. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I create the whole universe, blink by blink.—An ugly god pitifully dying in a tree! Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I have visions of parallel and/or perpendicular universes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z There was also the problem that if stars had been burning indefinitely in a static universe they’d have made the whole intolerably hot–certainly much too hot for the likes of us. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It began as a spark and exploded, spreading like a universe within my mind. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z This Atman, which resides in every thing, is part of the essence of the universe, and is immortal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Copernicus’s universe was no longer Earth-centred, but it was still Earth-friendly, and there was no reason to think it was not the product of benevolent design. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Still playing cat and mouse with the universe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She says, “Did you know that the universe is approximately twenty-seven percent dark matter?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Jomon Japan was a conservative miniature universe that maintained its isolation and changed surprisingly little over the course of 10,000 years—an island of stability in a fragile, rapidly changing contemporary world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The idea that space and time may form a closed surface without boundary also has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To explore all those different universes for them. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Lower that value very slightly–from 0.007 percent to 0.006 percent, say–and no transformation could take place: the universe would consist of hydrogen and nothing else. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Fall had partly disrupted this perfect arrangement, forcing human beings to labour to survive; but the original architecture of the universe was still visible for all to see. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Practically no living things crossed his path during those days in that universe of gorgeous frozen light. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If the universe wants this to happen, she will be there at her locker. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z When you live next door to a kid, that kid is your buddy by the rules of the universe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Yet a few hours outside their city, children are living in a different universe, a refugee camp where water is the prized possession. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He pouted, as if he was disappointed in the universe for not trying harder to get him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Second, there is the question of the initial state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z What lay beyond the last sphere was never made very clear, but it certainly was not part of mankind’s observable universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The discovery that the universe is expanding was one of the great intellectual revolutions of the twentieth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Yet however “quaint” the universes of the archaic or classical sages might have seemed by the third century, they were far from empirically disproven. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Philosophy tells us that the universe consists of concentric spheres; the actual patterns made by the planets as they move through the heavens is a subject for astronomy, which is a sub-branch of mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They are the anchors that keep me from knackering my fourteen-billion-year-old atoms back out into the universe where they came from, where they belong. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z As space stretched, the matter and energy in the universe expanded with it and rapidly cooled. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Commonly, the universe is naively imagined to follow human or animal precedent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun and the Earth are unique, and the universe has a centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Something happened inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Chuck’s eyes widened, as if the darkest, deepest secret of the universe had just been revealed to him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They contained a number-shape that was the ultimate symbol of the Pythagorean view of the universe: the golden ratio. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “No you don’t. You know? You have a sucky time dress shopping, and you’re ready to call off prom. You wouldn’t try out for the play because you’re not the best actress in the universe.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z A universe of fury seemed to spin inside Mark, an impossible feeling that he knew couldn’t last, couldn’t be contained. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly you needed two sets of laws to explain the behavior of the universe–quantum theory for the world of the very small and relativity for the larger universe beyond. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This is the case of a man’s mistaking a whole race of men as a part of the natural structure of the universe and of his acting toward them accordingly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I will paint for him not only the visible universe, but all that he can conceive of nature’s immensity in the womb of this abridged atom. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So now there’s a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The idea that out of almost nothing you could re-create the entire universe was plainly ridiculous, yet that was what Galileo was now doing. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Ideas about big things, such as the universe, and good and evil, and why things exist in the first place.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He looked around to make sure everybody was watching, a big ole grin on his face like he was the funniest person in the universe. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “The universe knew that was too easy and outsmarted us.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he likes being in control of his own little universe, being able to arrange things how he wants, like a god or something? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s all just floating in a million universes you made. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z So in the end our work became generally accepted and nowadays nearly everyone assumes that the universe started with a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If the red shift is due to the expansion of the universe, very different red shifts imply very different distances. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she and I entered our own little universe, talking about education and girls’ rights around the world. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He’s just sitting and staring with the saddest look in the universe. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time of the Vatican conference, I did not know how to use the “no boundary” idea to make predictions about the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems unfair that an entire civilization could vanish from the universe and leave no trace behind, while Jesse lingers on. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “If it’s not the universe, then how do you explain everything that happened today?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He was oblivious to the universe of wood life that did live there in layers of ivy grown so thick he could have sunk his arm in it up to the elbow. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered what law of the universe kept them from being mixed? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Of “truths” like geocentrism, the four elements of the material universe, or the body’s four “humors,” one classicist has asked Why prove them? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Or is it just possible that wormholes connect with other universes, places that would otherwise be forever inaccessible to us? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the right conditions this energy is able to push objects around; in the early universe it might have pushed objects apart. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z With it he discovered a universe in a drop of water: the microbes, which he described as “animalcules” and thought “cute.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of placing Earth at the center of the universe filled with epicycle-filled clockworks, Copernicus imagined that the sun was at the center instead, and the planets moved in simple circles. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether or not there have been such visits is a question distinct from whether or not there is other conscious life in the universe. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, we are a part of this universe, we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When I try to explain my theories about weather systems, or other remarkable phenomena of the universe, and Kat tells me to shut up, it’s Mum who tells Kat not to be rude. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is a different world. A different universe.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z What do we know about the universe, and how do we know it? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the present smooth and uniform state of the universe could have evolved from many different non-uniform initial states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this universe, there were no galaxies, stars or planets, no life or civilizations, merely a uniform, radiant fireball filling all of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Regent was a being whose profound intellect had had thousands of years to deepen and strengthen itself, and whose knowledge extended over a million universes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The whole world saw him the way he wanted to be seen: as an unassailable force, complete unto himself and in full command of the mysteries of the universe. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His argument for the thesis was that if the universe did not have a beginning, there would be an infinite period of time before any event, which he considered absurd. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew the Copernican system could work only if the cosmos was much bigger than the Ptolemaics had imagined, but he did not correct his father’s figures for the dimensions of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Using the wave/particle duality discussed in the last chapter, everything in the universe, including light and gravity, can be described in terms of particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now might be a good time to admit that the universe is not paying attention, though. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I could be speaking French in another universe. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We lie silently under outer space, taking in all those pinpricks of light, and I too feel dwarfed by the massive universe. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This could provide a solution to the problem, raised earlier, of why different regions in the early universe have the same properties. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like I had entered some kind of mirror universe. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that people had rearranged God’s order by segregating the races and that the Civil Rights movement was attempting to restore a rightful order to the universe based on biblical principles. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One possibility was that the universe would collapse under its own gravity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the second kind of solution, the universe is expanding so rapidly that the gravitational attraction can never stop it, though it does slow it down a bit. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It would inflate the balloon with a huge burst of power, smoothing out the lumpiness of the universe in the same way a breath of air smooths out the wrinkles of a balloon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You close your eyes and mouth and send your thoughts through the universe.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Even with my pillow pressed over my face, I could smell the booze on him, the atoms from what he’d been getting drunk on wheezing out into the universe with each breath Cade Hernandez exhaled. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z And as if the universe heard me, as if, for one moment, all the feet in the world leapt and landed in time with the song, another body squeezed into our tight circle. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Disorder couldn’t increase much because the universe would be in a state of almost complete disorder already. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To answer this question we need to know the present rate of expansion of the universe and its present average density. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Or as the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We would then all be able to have some understanding of the laws that govern the universe and are responsible for our existence. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z According to multiverse theory, every version of our past and future histories exists, just in an alternate universe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe my mother has not met my father at all in another universe, and so I don’t even exist. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Petaled stars and dandelion comets streak the green universe. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They are the centre of the universe; they are all that really counts. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The atomism of Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius implied that the universe is made up of building blocks that function through their size, shape and solidity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For this reason it can be used as a standard candle to measure the expansion rate of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A more practical possibility is that such low-mass black holes might have been formed in the high temperatures and pressures of the very early universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It cannot be the case, however, that every initial configuration would have led to a universe like the one we observe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists count the puffs and by such means take us very slightly closer to understanding the fundamental properties of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “And you’re staying in Apartment A. I think the universe is mocking us.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z As the Earth was the center of the greater universe, so London was the center of our miniature universe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z This means that the initial state of the universe must have been very carefully chosen indeed if the hot big bang model was correct right back to the beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It is slightly galling to think that we live in a universe that, for the most part, we can’t even see, but there you are. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Because a grain of sand is a moment of creation, and the universe has taken millions of years to create it. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He claimed that space-time had an inbuilt tendency to expand, and this could be made to balance exactly the attraction of all the matter in the universe, so that a static universe would result. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But Khalid was really curious, I could tell, so I told him about that secret universe he dreamed up sometimes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Before they could accept zero, philosophers in the West would have to destroy their universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They had the technology to travel the universe and draw out my memories; surely, they could have returned me to Earth fully dressed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The universe as a whole would have continued expanding and cooling, but in regions that were slightly denser than average, the expansion would have been slowed down by the extra gravitational attraction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Of all the major human mysteries—God, the nature of the universe, etc.—he knew the least about tampons. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Again, if we knew how the Euclidean curved space-times in the sum over histories behaved at early times, we would know the quantum state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Because only the hand understood that it was a larger design that had moved the universe to the point at which six days of creation had evolved into a Master Work. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and yet no one would guess as much for another thirty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He would, of course, still have had the freedom to choose the laws that the universe obeyed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe dissolves with him—until, after another Brahma century, he stirs, recomposes himself and begins again to dream the great cosmic dream. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The zero of the vacuum might explain the lumpiness of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z With him he spoke of chemistry and the enigma of the universe. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Zero appeared in the middle of every Renaissance painting, and a cardinal declared that the universe was infinite—boundless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you want something, all the universe conspires to help you achieve it,” the old king had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem with this view was that it meant abandoning the idea that the universe was created out of nested spheres—a high price to pay, and one that few were prepared to contemplate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Greeks did not believe that the gods created the universe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like one of the Zen-master moments in a movie when the master suddenly figures out the secret of the universe without trying. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer, disappointingly, is that you can never get to the edge of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In Charmed Life, that book I gave Gat, there are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “You are the most inscrutable guy in the universe.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Would Fort have seen an interesting pattern or a secret of the universe in grocery lists? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I thought that was basically a law of the universe. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z The assumption that the universe looks the same in every direction is clearly not true in reality. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And there’d certainly been no instructions about how she should prepare herself in case she accidentally triggered the end of the universe. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It’s more as if the universe expands to fill the boundaries of the self. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, astronomers suspect that the universe is about 15 billion light-years across and peppered everywhere with clusters of galaxies. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “I’ve been promoted,” Percy said before Harry could even ask, and from his tone, he might have been announcing his election as supreme ruler of the universe. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His enthusiasm for the universe like it’s actually a friend of ours. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Little by little, however, and as the war became more intense and widespread, his image was fading away into a universe of unreality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It would bring to an end a long and glorious chapter in the history of humanity’s intellectual struggle to understand the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing of the galaxies, stars, planets, lifeforms or civilizations evolved in the previous incarnation of the universe oozes into the cusp, flutters past the Big Bang, to be known in our present universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As if every human and every creature and every gas and liquid and speck of dirt and granule of sand and gust of air settled all at once, and all was right in the universe. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z They are both based on his unspoken assumption that time continues back forever, whether or not the universe had existed forever. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This man seemed to be from a different universe than Joseph’s mother. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Stairs represented a teleological view of the universe, of one thing leading to another, whereas now everyone knew that one thing didn’t lead to another but often nowhere at all. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She wants to propel herself into the dark and terrifying universe. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Instead, zero shaped humanity’s view of the universe—and of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Seeing those letters, that big, fat money prize, I felt like I’d been falling into some deep, hopeless black hole, and the universe looked at me and said, Not yet, Natalie. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Humason and Hubble, it gradually became clear, had discovered the Big Bang—if not the origin of the universe then at least its most recent incarnation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like the universe willed this moment into existence. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “I guess the universe did do us a solid.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I came to think of upstairs and downstairs as two different universes, ruled over by competing sensibilities. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The universe would have then undergone a period of rapid expansion, as in the inflationary models. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the upper left hand is a tongue of flame, a reminder that the universe, now newly created, will billions of years from now be utterly destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Cosmic strings may sound like pure science fiction but there are reasons to believe they could have formed in the early universe as a result of symmetry-breaking of the kind discussed in Chapter 5. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeus and his brothers drew lots for their share of the universe. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As was explained in the first chapter, it would be very difficult to construct a complete unified theory of everything in the universe all at one go. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the eighteenth century, philosophers considered the whole of human knowledge, including science, to be their field and discussed questions such as: did the universe have a beginning? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t matter to the universe, but I mattered to him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determine events completely for some supernatural being, who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The analogy that is usually given for explaining the curvature of space is to try to imagine someone from a universe of flat surfaces, who had never seen a sphere, being brought to Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A universe where he does derail it but Natasha is able to fix it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z But unlike Hubble’s dim Cepheids, supernovas are visible halfway across the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It has occurred to everyone who has contemplated, even casually, the question of intelligent life in the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z With no less than the animating principle of the universe: “azoth,” the secret essence alchemists had sought for centuries. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z First, in what sense can all these different universes be said to exist? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a different universe down there, the water shining with flecks of moving light and kudzu vines draped between the pine trees like giant hammocks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bruno seized on Copernicanism to argue for an infinite and eternal universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe the universe doesn’t hate me after all. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These implicitly assume either that the universe is spatially infinite or that there are infinitely many universes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z No, his mom had always been like that, talking to anyone, thinking that the universe took care of you, as if all you had to do was ask nicely. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z A universe created from Chaos was in perfect keeping with the Greek belief in an unpredictable Nature run by capricious gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But as the universe expanded, the temperature of the radiation decreased. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At the big bang itself the universe is thought to have had zero size, and so to have been infinitely hot. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe in addition to carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, it also had a little bit of miranium, the strongest element in the universe, because nothing ever knocked it down. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z It seems that this idea could explain many of the observed features of the universe, such as its large-scale uniformity and also the smaller-scale departures from homogeneity, like galaxies, stars, and even human beings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Another philosophy vied with the atomic theory, and instead of posing such bizarre concepts as the infinite vacuum, it turned the universe into a cozy nutshell. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Star upon star, red, blue, yellow, and white, swirling nebulae, galaxy upon galaxy: the universe, in its incandescence and darkness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Goin’ to State was in the hearts and minds of everyone again, still at the center of the universe. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If there is insufficient matter to prevent the universe from expanding forever, it must have an open shape, curved like a saddle with a surface extending to infinity in our three-dimensional analogy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z According to that argument, we can tell that the universe has a creator because only an external agent could have designed and constructed it so that its different parts serve their specific functions. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The universe came from nothing—and both theories break down when they try to explain the origin of the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the rate of expansion of the universe would automatically become very close to the critical rate determined by the energy density of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a single mom too, with Meg’s dad being held prisoner halfway across the universe. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z We stay like that, enfolded in each other’s arms, for a minute or two, and it feels like the universe is reorganizing itself, and I know any anger we felt has disappeared. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “The universe is seeming really huge right now,” he told me. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Earth was no longer at the center of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If scientists succeed, they will understand the laws of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I felt like I was the saddest boy in the universe. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z If my two stars aren't aligned, there’s no way the universe is kind to us. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z A more modem version is the calculation of the approximate number of subatomic bits that would fill up the universe. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please tell me the universe feels bad for us, and it’s Sanskrit for Treat yourself to a demonless day and not the number three, which it kinda looks like.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z If we knew the initial state of our universe, we would know its entire history. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Zero divided by zero can equal any number in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Arthur, the universe just got the ball rolling,” he says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Then the galactic astronomers are out of business, the stars cool and die, matter itself decays and the universe becomes a thin cold haze of elementary particles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Bruno was not the first to imagine an infinite universe with extraterrestrial life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This behavior of the universe could have been predicted from Newton’s theory of gravity at any time in the nineteenth, the eighteenth, or even the late seventeenth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Aristarchus proposed a universe with the sun at its center and the stars set in a sphere that was unimaginably distant. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z We have seen in this chapter how, in less than half a century, man’s view of the universe, formed over millennia, has been transformed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Water, on the other hand, remains symmetrically arranged about the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Maybe the universe will send him back to you,” Ethan says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z In a universe tilled with stars rushing helter-skelter in all directions, there was no place that was “at rest,” no framework from which to view the universe that was superior to any other framework. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Because it’s a topological map, you are in a universe where the spaces between points don’t matter and all that counts is the sequence of stops and where the lines cross. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Within the universe, I felt like a speck, but within myself I felt gigantic, the salt air filling my lungs, the roaring of the waves rushing in my ears. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z "We don’t really see the creator twiddling twenty knobs to set twenty parameters to create the universe as we know it." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We watched every DVD we could find about the universe. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, Einstein never accepted that the universe was governed by chance; his feelings were summed up in his famous statement “God does not play dice.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like their battle might rattle the universe until everything was destroyed. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z If there is less than a certain critical amount of matter in the universe, the gravitation of the receding galaxies will be insufficient to stop the expansion, and the universe will run away forever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood up then, in the dark, and got my first good look at the universe all around me. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mandy stares at hers like it holds the secret of the universe. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Guth suggested that the universe might behave in a similar way: the temperature might drop below the critical value without the symmetry between the forces being broken. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The survival of the universe depended on them.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was delighted with the harbor and wrote: “Not a port in the universe could afford more conveniences.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath the waves, she knew, the sea was a universe all its own. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z This is not, Descartes assures us, how our universe began: God made it, God ordered it, as we all know. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But according to most theories the universe at large–the meta-universe, as it is sometimes called–is vastly roomier still. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Our bottles drained, Patrick would carry us back to what everyone but Lyle agreed was the center of the universe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z By the late 1930s, scientists like Hahn understood that everything in the universe is made up of incredibly tiny particles called atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe was good because he was in it. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z When the universe begins to expand, it won’t be spreading out to fill a larger emptiness. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The big bang, the most puzzling event in the history of the universe, is a zero in both theories. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The center of such a universe is not in that universe; it lies, inaccessible, in the third dimension, inside the sphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Nicholas of Cusa and Nicolaus Copernicus cracked open the nutshell universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Since man’s fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go ahead and turn before the next century. No, take your time, shave, contemplate the universe...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He was living in a universe of two, feeling invulnerable. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z At that time, which we call the big bang, the density of the universe and the curvature of space-time would have been infinite. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Copernicus had described a spherical universe with the sun at its centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The supernatural link between aesthetics, ratios, and the universe became one of the central and long-lasting tenets of Western civilization. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It’s as if all the things I’ve learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see all the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light.... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, even the types of particles that exist in the universe would depend on the temperature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The point to remember, of course, is that when considering the universe at large we don’t actually know what is in our own solar system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s a powerful feeling—daring the universe to end you. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Prism is an enormous, colorful honeycomb, full of the most creative little worker bees in the history of the universe. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There is the deep and appealing notion that the universe is but the dream of the god who, after a hundred Brahma years, dissolves himself into a dreamless sleep. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, the universe is somewhat lumpy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z An expanding universe resolved much of this at a stroke. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Very likely, the universe has been expanding since the Big Bang, but it is by no means clear that it will continue to expand forever. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z How the whole of human civilization is nothing more than a mosquito’s annoying buzz to the universe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Instead, I sank my energy into being the sole animating force in my little common-area universe. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s an egotistical thing to say—we are all centers of our personal universes in any event—but it was ironically obvious to me; and my father had told me straight out, anyway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Though the individual galaxies zoomed away and died, the entire universe as a whole never changed. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z However, because the universe is not exactly the same in every direction, but only on average on a large scale, the microwaves cannot be exactly the same in every direction either. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment, I think everything in my universe had a twenty-four in it. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “One day we bundled gifts in our backpack and crossed a bridge outstretched like the universe. And we made it to the other side, thirsty, in awe.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There was that cool and cute Arthur guy, who clearly hasn’t been burned by the universe before, because he actually thought we were supposed to meet. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Descartes was willing to envision a universe where God set up the initial conditions and then left the machine to assemble and run itself. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A universe where he does derail it and she is not able to fix it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Once you are there, the rest of the universe seems nothing but an unpleasant dream. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Rees maintains that six numbers in particular govern our universe, and that if any of these values were changed even very slightly things could not be as they are. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly I imagined the universe as a giant set of LEGOs, all those pieces constructing endless forms, then coming apart only to create new forms. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The universe was contained in a nutshell, ensconced comfortably within the sphere of fixed stars; the cosmos was finite in extent, and entirely filled with matter. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Thus the centre of gravity of the earth still coincides with the centre of the universe, but its geometrical centre does not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This states that every object in the universe exerts a tug on every other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And this is the way it’s always been for me, for the little universe of us. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The element earth is potentially at the centre of the universe, and as it falls towards that centre it realizes its potential. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This energy is dissipated as heat, and increases the amount of disorder in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The one who told the Chumley kids that they weren’t the center of this or any other known universe. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z They suggested that the big bang might be a peculiarity of Friedmann’s models alone, which after all were only approximations to the real universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The small garden was just a slip of earth on the side of the house, but it seemed like its own universe. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z This is why it is gravity that determines the evolution of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Physicists have theorized that we live in an infinite and infinitely expanding universe, and that everything in it will eventually repeat. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then think how many it would take to build a universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This would lead to a uniform universe, as we observe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed much more likely that the universe itself was expanding, carrying the galaxies with it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A Big Bang had occurred, originating at the bridge of her nose, and the force of this explosion had sent galaxies of freckles hurtling and drifting to every end of her curved, warm-blooded universe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the case of a light universe, the balloon of space-time could expand forever, getting bigger and bigger. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the case of a universe that is approximately uniform in space, one can show that this negative gravitational energy exactly cancels the positive energy represented by the matter. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Perspective thus introduced an anomalous concept of infinity into a finite universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She shivered from the cold, here in the middle of this tiny house in the middle of the countryside in the middle of Earth in the middle of the universe. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Henry’s whole face grimaces in frustration, his eyes casting skyward like they’re searching for help from an uncaring universe. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z On earth, astronomers are hindered by electric lights and radio signals that pollute the night sky, but on the back side of the moon astronomers could view the universe without interference. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, the universe basically scooped us up and delivered us to each other. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Eventually, the universe would crunch itself into a zero-dimensional point—like a black hole—and would disappear forever. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “My father has just died, that’s why. He would have told me all he knew, if he hadn’t been killed. You say it’s a world—do you mean a world like this one, another universe?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z In an expanding universe in which the density of matter varied slightly from place to place, gravity would have caused the denser regions to slow down their expansion and start contracting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And without galaxies, there are no stars, no planets, and so in those universes there’s no chance for our form of life to exist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was not wide, just one man’s voice, but it was as deep as the universe. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Even those who realized that Newton’s theory of gravity showed that the universe could not be static did not think to suggest that it might be expanding. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the other way about: the universe created the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Stephen says he’s interested in the problems of two- dimensional universes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Was there a tiny universe, devoid of all matter, and then the matter suddenly created from nothing? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For Newton to explain the laws of the universe, he had to ignore the illogic within his calculus—an illogic caused by a division by zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In order to predict how the universe should have started off, one needs laws that hold at the beginning of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This argument holds everywhere in the universe—in the center of the earth and in the deepest vacuum of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z At first sight, Penrose’s result applied only to stars; it didn’t have anything to say about the question of whether the entire universe had a big bang singularity in its past. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The matter in the universe is made out of positive energy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was here that the Lia Fáil stood, the rock at the center of the universe, where the fairy kings and later the human Ard Rí were crowned. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A time bomb was ticking at the heart of their outwardly placid, inwardly unstable little family universe, and he was afraid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The waters have been displaced from their original position, and their sphere now has a centre other than the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For the first time, as James Trefil has put it, scientists had encountered "an area of the universe that our brains just aren’t wired to understand." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z That our own universe exploded into existence in the space of a breath? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, that expansion will cease, and gravity will cause the universe to contract. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He saw Kay’s face somewhere in the cartwheel of the universe, flushed with starlit excitement and Maid Marian’s on the other side with its mouth open, shouting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They seem to partake vigorously in the expansion of the universe, some receding from us at more than 90 percent the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel as much belief in her as I do in God—I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z This is the primal zero, the birthplace of the universe: the big bang, a furious explosion that created the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Similarly, if the whole universe recollapsed, there must be another state of infinite density in the future, the big crunch, which would be an end of time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is an example of the application of what is known as the anthropic principle, which can be paraphrased as “We see the universe the way it is because we exist.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since I’m letting the universe dictate my life on this Final Day of Childhood, I don’t bother waiting for another train to take me to Thirty-Fourth Street. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There are so many universes I want to explore with my camera. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z In discussing the large-scale structure of the Cosmos, astronomers are fond of saying that space is curved, or that there is no center to the Cosmos, or that the universe is finite but unbounded. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Astronomers today believe there are perhaps 140 billion galaxies in the visible universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It is arguable that 2 + 2 will equal 4 in any universe; and, surely, levers and balances would work in the same way in any universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Really big measures, like the size of a universe, are measured in megaparsecs: a million parsecs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It is from this singularity that all the matter and energy in the universe spewed forth, creating all the galaxies, stars, and planets that have ever—and will ever—exist. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The universe would be left in a very non-uniform state, with some regions still having symmetry between the different forces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The asymmetry of the universe could be explained by the asymmetrical nature of these expanding bubbles that formed and merged. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In the Aristotelian universe the earth had been the recipient of light but had given no light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We are in the realm of the nebulae, eight billion light-years from Earth, halfway to the edge of the known universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Jake grabbed a small bottle of water out of the fridge and realized that there were some things even the smartest kid in the universe couldn’t figure out. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z How could two such different cultural universes maintain themselves across a calm strait only 10 miles wide and routinely traversed by canoes? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the Flatlanders take short excursions, their universe looks flat enough. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Find the most powerful weapon in the universe.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z If he wasn’t the smartest kid in the universe, he might not be able to figure out an alternate escape route. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The universe might be telling us we are not supposed to be together or something. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Hazel knows the truth: We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Maybe far across the universe, on another planet, the indigenas are the powerful ones, the ones who go to school in burgundy uniforms; Maybe the mestizos are their servants. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I remembered her from elementary school, where she’d been all universe at anything that took brains. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z If the universe is closed, light is trapped within it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic, and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And then blackness went to darkness...and the whole universe appeared. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Our entire solar system is an insignificantly small part of the universe, a grain of sand in an endless desert. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the red shift might be a Doppler effect due not to the general expansion of the universe but rather to a more modest and local galactic explosion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The infinite was not needed in the Greek universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The earth is still a sphere, but it is no longer at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That is, the universe would develop in the same way as its mirror image if, in addition, every particle was swapped with its antiparticle! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One notion is that perhaps the singularity was the relic of an earlier, collapsed universe–that we’re just one of an eternal cycle of expanding and collapsing universes, like the bladder on an oxygen machine. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z People in the contracting phase would live their lives backward: they would die before they were born and get younger as the universe contracted. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z An Aristotelian could never argue like this: Aristotle himself did not believe the universe had a creator, and his medieval successors thought that purposiveness was part of the very fabric of nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He said, “The earth does fall through the universe. You know that, buddy. It’s constantly falling toward the sun. That’s what it means to orbit.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z My parents’ fears shrink my universe to the four walls of this house. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In all of the universe, are we unique? We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It may be that our universe is simply one of many fluctuations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z How could Earth, then, be the center of the universe? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What if the universe always wanted us to meet and stay in each other’s lives forever as best friends? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The drab workmen scuttle all around, occupying the same universe but seemingly on a different dimension. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I showed her the pages I had written so far, with the diagram of the universe and the map of the street and the prime numbers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I’m used to the way this universe works. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “The universe has a cruel sense of humor,” it moaned. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Zero would punch a hole in the neat Pythagorean order of the universe, and for that reason it could not be tolerated. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There is nevertheless a nagging suspicion among some astronomers that all may not be right with the deduction, from the red shifts of galaxies via the Doppler effect, that the universe is expanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You’ve got to have either infinity or zero; a universe without both of them makes no sense. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Kepler specifically said that ‘my aim...is to show that the machine of the universe is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Sarah was still studying Mrs. Ebeling as if the secrets of the universe, or at least of our family, could be found by determining the most effective manner of bringing groceries into the house. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I have stumbled into a very strange universe. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But words were the atoms in my father’s universe, and he was their destroyer and their creator. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z As we have seen, this can produce some remarkable consequences, such as black holes not being black, and the universe not having any singularities but being completely self-contained and without a boundary. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the theory that all matter in the universe is gradually moving toward the same temperature. Also known as ‘heat death.’” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Of course she’d never expected to be climbing trees in another universe, and climbing solo didn’t greatly appeal, either, but there was no choice about that. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He, God, had made a sloven and unforgivable error in judgment: designing an imperfect universe. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In that case, the beginning of time would be a regular, smooth point of space-time and the universe would have begun its expansion in a very smooth and ordered state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As they pushed on, they encountered a strange universe of unknown creatures that included a 450-pound, six-foot kangaroo, and a marsupial lion, as massive as a modern tiger, that was the continent’s largest predator. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In string theory, zero has been banished from the universe; there is no such thing as zero distance or zero time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Because in this and all universes, there is balance. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Perfect. Because I have universes I want to explore, Sahil Roy. And I want you to be my partner through all of it.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This uncertainty applies, incidentally, to relatively nearby things as much as to the distant edges of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The theory neatly solves the grandfather paradox by positing separate universes in which each possible outcome exists, thereby avoiding a paradox. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Based on the poem Desiderata, the lyrics conveyed that everyone in the universe has a right to be here. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z According to Rees, the number of light-years to the edge of this larger, unseen universe would be written not "with ten zeroes, not even with a hundred, but with millions." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that the universe is so uniform and homogeneous on a large scale, it contains local irregularities, such as stars and galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of me wants to just get our inevitable encounter over with, but as it turns out the universe isn’t interested in what I want, because Adam doesn’t notice me by the lockers at all. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “But if there isn’t a reason, then why does the universe exist at all?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z These four sons had been vying for supremacy since the beginning of time; the history of the universe was mainly a record of their endless struggle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When asked: “What did God do before he created the universe?” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If his face was a supernova before, it became an accretion disc—one of the brightest objects in the universe—as soon as he tasted his lettuce. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z For the foreseeable future, banishing zero from the universe with string theory is a philosophical idea rather than a scientific one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z To me, it seems far more likely that the universe is brimming over with life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The physics that works for falling bodies and pirouetting ice skaters down here in the microcosm of the Earth makes galaxies up there in the macrocosm of the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So if disorder were to decrease in the contracting phase of the universe, one might also expect it to decrease inside a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Good to bad to good to bad, the universe spins, which means morning then darkness then morning. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The room darkens and the screen lights up, and there is the universe, or parts of it: the black void punctuated by galaxies and stars, white-hot, blue-hot, red. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Dante, unlike the philosophers, took his geography seriously, but no philosopher could have found his abandonment of the fundamental principle that the universe was made out of spheres entirely satisfactory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The fact that such ideas are being discussed even semi-seriously shows how surreal the universe may be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I was deaf and alone in a universe filled solid with small stinging gray streaks. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, in the case of the universe, could it be that we are living in a region that just happens by chance to be smooth and uniform? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the whole universe there was nothing else; all was black, empty, silent, endless. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Needless to say, the universe is not really that orderly. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I climb one by one, each step bringing me closer to freedom, each gasp for air a challenge to the universe. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z So much depends upon this observer of the universe. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I was also unaware of just about anything in the universe that wasn’t named Julia Bishop. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Yet my presence was known throughout the region: I was a gaudy flag waving overhead during all those months of sickness and oblivion, just a girl in love, the center of my own universe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The atomists, for example, believed that the universe is made up of little particles called atoms, which are indivisible and eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He says that one of the really interesting questions is whether the universe is infinite and unbounded, or infinite but bounded, like the balloon idea. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In doing so, he completely abandoned two principles which had been fundamental to Aristotle: that the element earth is a sphere, and that the element earth is at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Generally speaking in the universe it doesn’t, so far as we can tell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I’m kicking butt at the moment—universe domination is within my grasp for the first time. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was a strange and unsettling sight, like he was standing at the edge of the universe, and for a brief moment he was overcome by ver-tigo, his knees weakening before he steadied himself. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z So then what is there to say about the stuff the universe takes away? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Like the universe expanding, or who committed a murder. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The only areas of physical science into which quantum mechanics has not yet been properly incorporated are gravity and the large-scale structure of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Forget ten, I said to the universe as we walked to the door. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They exist nowhere else in the universe but within me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It seemed to turn the universe upside down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw this as proof of God’s pleasure in mathematical symmetry showing in his design of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The universe is hard to pin down; it changes when you look at it, as if it resists being known. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He doubted that the universe was created to provide a home for human beings any more than a palace is built for rats to live in. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Robert Graves linked these tohu to Tehomot, a primal Semitic dragon that was present at the birth of the universe and whose body became the sky and earth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Such “missing mass,” if common in intergalactic space, would make a major contribution to closing the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Wart was on an even keel now, and reasonably able to move about He had leisure to look at the extraordinary universe into which the tattoed gentleman's trident had plunged him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “From the other universe we can see through the Aurora.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z But the universe, all of it, almost everywhere, is 99 percent hydrogen and helium,* the two simplest elements. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were "seeing" the first photons–the most ancient light in the universe– though time and distance had converted them to microwaves, just as Gamow had predicted. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Like the universe just heard me, from the depths of the jungle a swooshing noise and then screeching vibrate the air. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z As we settle in to the clique, it becomes our universe. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z If everything in the universe depends on everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as wormholes can, in theory, send you halfway across the universe in the blink of an eye, they can send you backward and forward in time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Such a model of the universe would not correspond to what we see. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only does zero hold the secret to our existence, it will also be responsible for the end of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Hubble’s discovery that the universe was expanding, and the realization of the insignificance of our own planet in the vastness of the universe, were just the starting point. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don’t have any experience with bringing it back to center? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The sheer number of actions and reactions it’s taken to form our solar system, our galaxy, our universe, is astonishing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Inside it was another universe, and maybe if she figured out the right way to ask, someone would let her in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I gave the same seminar about the problems of the inflationary universe, just as in Moscow. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Countless idioms, word senses, and grammatical constructions have been coined and circulated by the universe of English speakers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This ordered and admirable character of the universe was called Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When we apply Feynman’s sum over histories to Einstein’s view of gravity, the analogue of the history of a particle is now a complete curved space-time that represents the history of the whole universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the North and South Poles correspond to the beginning and end of the universe in imaginary time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One can show this by considering a very different state for the universe at the present time, say, a very lumpy and irregular one. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminds me that the universe is full of possibility. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z God could have made the universe in many different ways; he has arbitrarily chosen to make it as it is, and the order it displays is an order he has chosen to impose upon it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I replied that there was this flaw about the bubbles being bigger than the universe, but that the basic idea of a slow breaking of symmetry was very good. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the universe that everyone else lived in. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Aristotle held that the universe is constructed out of five elements. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In a two-dimensional universe, curved through a third dimension, there is no center—at least not on the surface of the sphere. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus all the complicated structures that we see in the universe might be explained by the no boundary condition for the universe together with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Zero and infinity had destroyed the Arisotelian philosophy; the void and the infinite cosmos had eliminated the nutshell universe and the idea of nature’s abhorrence of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The galaxies then start to move toward each other and the universe contracts. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, one may describe the whole universe in terms of a collection of overlapping patches. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus Bruno imagined an infinite universe, with numberless stars and planets, all possibly inhabited by extraterrestrial life forms. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The universe would have started in a smooth and ordered state, and would become lumpy and disordered as time went on. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “When the time’s right,” Mama Ya-Ya always says, “the universe shines down love.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z As Dante was watching me search the sky through the lens of a telescope, he whispered, “Someday, I’m going to discover all the secrets of the universe.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It would take more than the age of the universe for light to circumnavigate it. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If you stare at the center of the universe, there is a coldness there. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Burst and swirl and fly around, their wings shining with all the colors of the universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z If the density is greater than the critical value, gravity will stop the expansion at some time in the future and cause the universe to recollapse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As long as we’re still making donuts in the alternate universe, I can deal. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z First, how can the soul be made to fit into a mechanistic universe? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language, and that which is at the core of us and struggles for expression, is the same thing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The river world was all brown and shadowy forms—a universe of nameless undefined matter below the surface. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z These elements naturally arrange themselves in concentric spheres outwards from the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Pythagoras argued that the earth sat at the center of the universe, and the sun, moon, planets, and stars revolved around the earth, each pinned inside a sphere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For physicists, however, zero and infinity seemed utterly irrelevant to the workings of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But if the universe is completely self-contained, with no singularities or boundaries, and completely described by a unified theory, that has profound implications for the role of God as Creator. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But Cronin and Fitch showed that if one replaces particles by antiparticles and takes the mirror image, but does not reverse the direction of time, then the universe does not behave the same. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of these predictions was that the number of galaxies or similar objects in any given volume of space should be the same wherever and whenever we look in the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted the entire universe to know I was scared. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Billions of light- years away are still more tumultuous objects, the quasars, which may be the colossal explosions of young galaxies, the mightiest events in the history of the universe since the Big Bang itself. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like the universe was trying to tell me something. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Okay, now this definitely feels like the universe is involved. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Because we inhabit the same universe as they, we and they must share some substantial information in common. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In either case, with the slightest tweaking of the numbers the universe as we know and need it would not be here. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “It’s good to know that you’re ending the universe, Mama. Maybe we do need to start from scratch.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She was thinking how amazing it was that people could get on an airplane and step off again in a different universe. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The universe may forget us, but it doesn’t matter. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Zero might hold the secret to our existence—and the existence of an infinite number of other universes. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It hadn’t taken me more than thirty seconds to look around the room and know that this was the place where the masters of the universe ate their tuna fish sandwiches. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z As far as we are concerned, events before the big bang can have no consequences, so they should not form part of a scientific model of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Up high in the sky, all the problems we had left behind seemed so tiny—as if I could pick them up one by one and fling them out of the universe. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z However, it did not resolve the crucial question: Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Penzias and Wilson’s finding pushed our acquaintance with the visible universe to within half an inch of the sidewalk. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She knew about boys and knew how to laugh and knew how to make a boy feel as though he was the center of the universe. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z You know how it feels to want to escape, only to be limited by the dimensions of your personal universe. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Some subcultists hold that those Afterlife Interims are actually, physically situated on other worlds, other planets of the real universe. Have you met with that idea, Mr. Ai?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Once Copernicus had suggested that the earth was not the centre of the universe but a planet orbiting the sun, people were bound to puzzle over what sort of planet it could be. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Scientists wonder about what happens in an oscillating universe at the cusps, at the transition from contraction to expansion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The beginning of the universe had, of course, been discussed long before this. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was flickering within the leaves, birds that made their universe inside the mammoth cloud of branches. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The universe may forget us, but our light will brighten the darkness for eons after we’ve departed this world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We keep him, and we value him; but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Every lovin’ thing in the universe,” he replied, then fell silent as he stared off into space for a long moment. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He died after a lengthy battle with human consciousness, a victim—as you will be—of the universe’s need to make and unmake all that is possible. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model, the repulsive effect of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the universe has my back after all. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z The general theory of relativity, on its own, cannot explain these features or answer these questions because of its prediction that the universe started off with infinite density at the big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That everything’s happening all at once, from the first bang that started the universe to the very moment everything comes to an end. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z So it would be if there are many universes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The universe, he once thought, may well be made up of infinitesimal pieces of string, in thirty-two different colors. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z That would seem a counsel of despair, a negation of all our hopes of understanding the underlying order of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked questions about the universe and searched continually for answers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Her coeditors on the law review, her fellow clerks at the court, and her colleagues at the law firm all seemed to have a universe of information that had passed her by. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “We are a generation not from this universe,” she said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Maybe the universe doesn’t hate all of Team Seuss, but it definitely hates me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Thus man, and so also perhaps the universe, could not have been around all that long. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch and interpret every sound in the universe. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In the following decades this new understanding of space and time was to revolutionize our view of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the real universe, however, the galaxies are not just moving directly away from each other—they also have small sideways velocities. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I said that there wasn’t anything outside the universe and there wasn’t another kind of place altogether. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I found myself wondering how many atoms from the same calamities out there in the universe our bodies shared. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “I know I don’t always do a great job of showing it, but you mean everything in the universe to me, William. I don’t know what I’d do—” He shifts his focus to the ceiling. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Look: It can be proved by observing the motion of objects in the universe that wherever you are is the precise center. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z She loves science, all of it—biology and physiology, planet earth, the universe, creatures both animal and human. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z According to Fernel, there are eternal, immutable laws which govern the universe: these are ordained by God, and without them there would be no order in the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Just as multiplying by zero causes the number line to collapse into a point, the vanishing point has caused most of the universe to sit in a tiny dot. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Quantum mechanics got rid of the zero in the classical theory of light—removing the infinite energy that supposedly came from every bit of matter in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Surprisingly little of the universe is visible to us when we incline our heads to the sky. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In universes whose dark-energy value is much smaller, the repulsive push changes to an attractive pull, causing those universes to collapse back on themselves so quickly that again galaxies wouldn’t form. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z So all we know is that the universe is expanding by between 5 percent and 10 percent every thousand million years. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He believed this because he felt, for mystical reasons, that the earth was the center of the universe, and that circular motion was the most perfect. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And that meant that the universe could not be static, as everyone previously had thought, but is in fact expanding; the distance between the different galaxies is growing all the time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s this strangeness, like when you accidentally turn one street too early, and, because all of the cookie-cutter houses look the same, you feel as if you’re in a parallel universe. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There are a number of objections that one can raise to the strong anthropic principle as an explanation of the observed state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking down over the universe of the park, she saw the town drift where it wanted, washed by sunlight on a stone bench, cooled in the shadows of the hanging tree. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z What really happens during the very early or late stages of the universe, when gravitational fields are so strong that quantum effects cannot be ignored? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Some made hostile speeches at the top of their voices against the hospital, the state and the universe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The harmony of the monochord was the harmony of mathematics—and the harmony of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Or, in other words, why should the universe be in a state of high order at one end of time, the end that we call the past? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z To the people who told these stories all the universe was alive with the same kind of life they knew in themselves. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If an astronaut falls into a black hole, its mass will increase, but eventually the energy equivalent of that extra mass will be returned to the universe in the form of radiation. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He smiles, almost in defiance of whatever force of the universe threw such obstacles in their path. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They are monkey astronauts, adrift in the endless universe, and the best thing about them is their faces. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z However, what the singularity theorems really indicate is that the gravitational field becomes so strong that quantum gravitational effects become important: classical theory is no longer a good description of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z No matter what happened, I could always let the world end and the universe forget. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It might seem a bit academic to worry about what will happen when the universe collapses again, as it will not start to contract for at least another ten thousand million years. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I fell through the doorway and into another universe that was not my home. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z St. Augustine accepted a date of about 5000 B.C. for the Creation of the universe according to the book of Genesis. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And, when someone was in such pursuit, the entire universe made an effort to help him succeed— that’s what the old king had said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The founder had been careful to select a sturdy building that had good wind and water vibrations, a phrase that meant it was in harmony with the rest of the universe. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d mostly say things that made no sense, or speak so low I couldn’t hear what he was telling me—but sometimes he’d whisper secrets about the universe. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z The universe and everything in it could collapse into a massive singularity, or it could initiate another Big Bang, a new beginning to the universe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z What does the universe even have to say for itself? Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z It’s weird how six days ago I met Arthur at a post office and the universe reached out with both arms to pull us together. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Moreover, there was his godlike quality of each year expanding in size, perhaps eventually to fill the universe. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the classical theory of general relativity, there are many different possible curved space-times, each corresponding to a different initial state of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You feel both invincible and yet targeted, as if the world—as if the universe—doesn’t want you to feel this dizzying enlightenment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Or maybe you need someone who can teach you something, hmm? Maybe Rishi is the universe’s way of teaching you how to take a breath and just roll with the punches.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Only if we could picture the universe in terms of imaginary time would there be no singularities. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Our universe is then virtually guaranteed to be among them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The universe was vaster–vastly vaster–than anyone had ever supposed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One could use the laws of science to evolve the universe back in time to determine its configuration at earlier times. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He aspired to become a colleague of the great Tycho Brahe, who for thirty-five years had devoted himself, before the invention of the telescope, to the measurement of a clockwork universe, ordered and precise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This said that the universe didn’t just have a single history: rather it had every possible history, each with its own probability. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I was trapped in a black hole, stuck in a soundproof bubble sealed away from the rest of the universe. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z One of these regions would become what we now see as the observable universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For ten minutes, fifteen kids — and possibly the universe — held their breath. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was another to manipulate the universe to do your bidding. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Cyrene’s other principal local export was silphion, a plant that is now extinct but whose products had a universe of uses in antiquity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z If gambling were allowed in her religion, which it was not, Naheed would have bet what was coming next, because lately it seemed that the universe was conspiring against her. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z And this time, with a wrenching crack, the knife shattered and the blade fell in pieces to the ground, to glitter on the stones that were still wet with the rain of another universe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Laugardalshöll was to be his universe for the next two months. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z About a billion years after the Big Bang, the distribution of matter in the universe had become a little lumpy, perhaps because the Big Bang itself had not been perfectly uniform. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The stars will go dark and the universe will end before I get this year back. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A primordial black hole with an initial mass of a thousand million tons would have a lifetime roughly equal to the age of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But what are you supposed to say when you find out someone’s living in a totally different universe? The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But more recently a lucky accident uncovered the fact that Friedmann’s assumption is in fact a remarkably accurate description of our universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You would think the universe would be cooler about taking care of those with less. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z We have previously mentioned the possibility of wormholes to get from one place in the universe to another without covering the intervening distance—through a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A benevolent deity could thus be shown to have created both the universe and humankind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Of the core three arguments we have distinguished—the corpuscular philosophy, animals as automatons and the clockwork universe—they agree on the first, but each picks one and only one of the other two. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z How can they know how and when the universe started and what it was like when it did? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In an unchanging universe a beginning in time is something that has to be imposed by some being outside the universe; there is no physical necessity for a beginning. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The universe, which smelled pretty nice and lemony, was right again. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In some other universe they are married, maybe with two children, or maybe with none. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly every motion in the universe made sense. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Donald is not sure what the universe was trying to tell him by taking away his only daughter, but here is what he learned: no one can put a price on losing everything. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The normal, predictable state of matter throughout the universe is randomness, a relaxed sort of equilibrium, with atoms and their particles scattered around in an amorphous muddle. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But if the Cosmos is closed and light cannot escape from it, then it may be perfectly correct to describe the universe as a black hole. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Western civilization eventually had to make a choice between Aristotle and the Bible, which says that the finite universe sprang forth from the void and prophesies its ultimate destruction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She doesn’t have the weight of the universe on her shoulders yet. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Mamou and Babou had always existed in their own cuboid universe: the two of them, and the walls of the computer room around them. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z There is, however, an alternate explanation: the universe might look the same in every direction as seen from any other galaxy too. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe not in this universe, Chess wanted to joke. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The success of scientific theories, particularly Newton’s theory of gravity, led the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace at the beginning of the nineteenth century to argue that the universe was completely deterministic. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z To Aristotle, the only possible way out of this quandary was to assume that the universe was eternal. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But we now know that the sun is a star, that other stars have planets, and there is every reason to think that there is life elsewhere in the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There was a whole universe waiting to be discovered in a pickup truck. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Einstein’s gravitational equations didn’t allow for a static, unchanging universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “It’s real close to the colored high school. The cutest colored boys in the whole universe work there. They’ll just die if they see me with you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This discovery finally brought the question of the beginning of the universe into the realm of science. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But falling in love doesn’t even begin to compare to the formation of the universe. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Given that the shadow particles passed through all the worlds alike, presumably the same thing was happening in her universe, too, and in every other one. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice became faint, like it became when she knew she had to concede something but thought she could keep the universe from hearing. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He’d already made a hurried deal with the universe: if he took the steps two at a time, she’d be there. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The universe is knowable, the ancient Ionians argued, because it exhibits an internal order: there are regularities in Nature that permit its secrets to be uncovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Traveling beyond the edge of the event horizon is like stepping off the edge of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There is no ultimate theory of the universe, just an infinite sequence of theories that describe the universe more and more accurately. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Even so, the number of useful ways of putting nucleic acids together is stupefyingly large—probably far greater than the total number of electrons and protons in the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me try to explain it to you, Aidan. In this great big ole universe, man is no more important than an oyster. Or something like that.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z They provided no new information about humanity’s place in the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But Einstein was not a cosmologist, and he accepted the prevailing wisdom that the universe was fixed and eternal. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z |
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