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Alexander A Friedmann: The Man who Made the Universe Expand – Biography written by Eduard A. Tropp, Viktor Ya. Frenkel and Artur D. Chernin; O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Alexander Friedmann", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews; How Do We Know the Age of the Universe – Mary Lynn Germadnik
Atum in Ennead, whose semen becomes the primal component of the universe; Ptah creating the universe by the Word; Neith, who wove all of the universe and existence into being on her loom. ’Ēl in Canaanite religion; Marduk killing Tiamat in the Babylonian Enûma Eliš; Asian contexts: Atingkok Maru Sidaba in Manipuri mythology, the creator of ...
The physical universe is defined as all of space and time [a] (collectively referred to as spacetime) and their contents. [10] Such contents comprise all of energy in its various forms, including electromagnetic radiation and matter, and therefore planets, moons, stars, galaxies, and the contents of intergalactic space.
The universe consists of a plasma of nuclei, electrons, and photons; temperature is too low to create electron-positron pairs (or any other pairs of massive particles), but too high for the binding of electrons to nuclei. Recombination: 18 ka ~ 370 ka 6000 ~ 1100 4000 K (0.4 eV) Electrons and atomic nuclei first become bound to form neutral ...
The belief that God became the Universe is a theological doctrine that has been developed several times historically, and holds that the creator of the universe actually became the universe. Historically, for versions of this theory where God has ceased to exist or to act as a separate and conscious entity, some have used the term pandeism ...
The universe of the ancient Israelites was made up of a flat disc-shaped Earth floating on water, heaven above, underworld below. [3] Humans inhabited Earth during life and the underworld after death, and the underworld was morally neutral; [4] only in Hellenistic times (after c.330 BC) did Jews begin to adopt the Greek idea that it would be a place of punishment for misdeeds, and that the ...
Anaximander was an early proponent of science and tried to observe and explain different aspects of the universe, with a particular interest in its origins, claiming that nature is ruled by laws, just like human societies, and anything that disturbs the balance of nature does not last long. [7]
Although ancient near eastern cosmology is widely seen as invoking a process of creatio ex materia, [16] [17] occasional suggestions have been made that the concept of creatio ex nihilo can be found at least in some texts, including the Egyptian Memphite Theology and the Genesis creation narrative. [18]