Sentences with phrase «island universes in»

Kant was right about the nebulae; Edwin Hubble established the reality of island universes in the 1920s.

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Malta is a little European island, whose pioneers are hoping to position inside the universe of cryptographic forms of money as a source of perspective nation in legitimate controls drawing in financial specialists in FinTech and related ventures.

According to them, these islands are at the origin of the «new information society» and are in the process of engendering the «knowledge society», the universe of dematerialised wealth and new knowledge.

Instead, they argue that the very nature and origin of the universe point to the existence of an intelligent creator, much like writing in the sand would point Robinson Crusoe to the existence of another person on the island.

British people have built a comfortable, quiet and democratic universe in a big, old island where foreigners are respected and taken in consideration.

Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, a Civil War general nicknamed «Old Stars,» first used «island universe» in his monthly astronomy magazine.

The centennial of Shapley's paper is not being widely celebrated, of course, because he was wrong — distant nebulae are, in fact, island universes (the measurements of internal motion supposedly ruling that out turned out to be bogus).

But Kant wrote in German, and he didn't use any phrase that could be translated as «island universe.»

It was in this magazine that the English phrase «island universe» was first used (as far as anybody knows) to refer to the distant nebulae.

Hubble took that to mean «island universes,» and wrote that Humboldt used it in Kosmos in 1850 «presumably for the first time.»

Credit for «island universe» does not therefore belong to Mädler, though — the article in Sidereal Messenger was Mitchel's translation of a paper by Mädler published earlier in 1846 in Astronomische Nachrichten.

But the first appearance of «island universe» came in October 1846, in a long article by the eminent astronomer Johann Heinrich von Mädler.

Using two large telescopes in Australia and the Canary Islands, he has determined that the visible universe contains about 70,000 million million million stars — that's a 7 followed by 22 zeros.

Sites in the Atacama Desert and the island of La Palma — already home to major astronomical facilities — were chosen ahead of rival sites in Namibia and Mexico for the northern and southern portions of the CTA, a $ 297 million facility that will allow astrophysicists to study some of the most energetic and distant objects in the universe.

It posits that different parts of space are always ballooning into separate universes, so that our observable universe is just a tiny island in an exponentially growing multiverse.

«The scientific picture of the universe a hundred years ago was that it was static and eternal in which we live in an island universe, our galaxy surrounded by empty space.

The densest objects in the universe have a new heavyweight champion: a pulsar so small that it could nearly fit onto the island of Manhattan but weighs in at 2.04 times the mass of the sun.

While this misty genesis unfolds, the island's most eminent residentdiscusses notions that still perplex him after seven decades in physics, including his gut feeling that the very universe may be constantly emerging from a haze of possibility, that we inhabit a cosmos made real in part by our own observations.

Similar islands of material in the early universe could have held as much water vapor as we find in our galaxy today, despite containing a thousand times less oxygen.

Understanding how these «islands in the universe» formed and evolved and how they are distributed throughout the Universe is central to the field of Cosmology.

The galaxies are the smallest, faintest, and most numerous galaxies ever seen in the remote universe, and were captured by Hubble deep exposures taken in ultraviolet light, and confirmed using the mighty Keck I telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii.

The first known galaxies were longly known before their nature as «island universes» came to light - this fact was finally proven only in 1923 by Edwin Powell Hubble, when he found Cepheid variable stars in the Andromeda Galaxy M31.

New theoretical work shows that similar islands of gas enriched in heavy elements in the early universe could have held as much water vapour as we find in our galaxy today.

In the existence: There is 1 universe, 9 planets, 204 countries, 809 islands, 7 seas and there is only ONE you.

Narratively, MGS for Game Boy (catchily subtitled Metal Gear: Ghost Babel in Japan) appears to exist in some parallel universe where the Zanzibar Land incident of Metal Gear 2 never happened, meaning that this return to Outer Heaven takes place instead of MGS» Shadow Moses Island conflict.

Escape Dead Island is an upcoming game set in the Dead Island universe from Deep Silver.

Dead Island: Epidemic, a new ZOMBA (Zombie Online Multiplayer Battle Arena) game set in the ever - expanding Dead Island universe.

It's not entirely clear what the specific plot is about in Kong: Skull Island, but the film is the next step in a shared cinematic universe that will eventually see Kong go head - to - head with Godzilla.

World's first consumer hands - on for the third person survival mystery spin - off, set in the Dead Island universe.

Filmed on a remote island off the coast of Ireland, it looks like a land plucked from Lord of the Rings, only the fantastical creatures — lactating sea aliens (that Luke Skywalker drinks the milk of) and Porgs, those adorable - as - hell owl - ferret creatures from the trailer — confirm that you're in the Star Wars universe.

A new ZOMBA (Zombie Online Multiplayer Battle Arena) game set in the ever - expanding Dead Island universe.

Title: BakéGyamon Genre: Action Author: Mitsuhisa Tamura Synopsis: Sanshiro's chances of having an adventure are slim to none in his tiny island hometown, until the day a mysterious stranger invites him to play a game... Without warning, Sanshiro is taken to a backwards universe to play BakéGyamon — a game pitting monsters against monsters.

This island is exceptionally well known in the statement and turn into the most famous traveler end of the line in the universe where Bali is honored by numerous spots of investment, special societies and amicable individuals.

Celebrate with us and check out the BIGGEST update in the history of Lep's World, this update brings the amazing new WORLD MAP with the mystical MAYA island: • TRAVEL around and visit all places in the Lep universe • ENJOY all 136 redesigned levels Thanks for playing!

Paradise meets Hell meets Retro - A classic side - scrolling action game set in the unique Dead Island universe.

Escape Dead Island is being developed by Fatshark Sweden and will unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak in the Dead Island universe.

As well as games in the Star Wars universe, LucasArts was famed for being a leading developer of point - and - click adventures, which reached the height of their popularity in the early»90s with titles in the Indiana Jones franchise and Rob Gilbert's The Secret of Monkey Island.

While I don't want to spoil anything, one notable sequence involves taking imprints of various wooden carvings with a block of cheese, and then using the markings on said cheese to manipulate an ancient idol to change the course of the wind — all just business as usual in the Monkey Island universe.

He joined LucasArts as a staff composer in 2008, where he scored several games in the Star Wars universe, including Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars: First Assault, as well as serving as the music supervisor and lead arranger for Monkey Island 2: Special Edition.

Deep Silver and Techland's second outing in the Dead Island universe will have you raging against the infected undead in a battle of survival; despite being part of the immune group your life hangs in the balance as you come against hordes of flesh - eating Zombies as you ready - up to survive the impossible!

The brand new entry for the online RPG introduces more than 30 hours of fresh Elder Scrolls story content; a new playable class, the Warden; a new 4v4v4 fast - action PvP mode, Battlegrounds; a new 12 - player Trial; and a return to one of the most beloved locales in the Elder Scrolls universe, the iconic island of Vvardenfell from the award - winning RPG, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.

Escape isn't a completely terrible game and is playable for someone looking for more in that universe until Dead Island 2.

Rainbow Islands (also due out on budget soon), it s still one of the finest platform games in the universe.

Dead Island Epidemic is a Zomba (Zombie Online Multiplayer Battle Arena) that pits a team of three to fight for survival, all set in the Dead Island universe.

Erik Meyer: Itta wakes up after the murder of her family and sets out adventuring with her floating cat on the island of Jigoku; the game takes on dark themes (graveyards, evil entities, brutal combat) while maintaining a compelling sense of hope in natural settings and quiet moments, so I'm interested in your aesthetic choices and how you maintain not only a consistent art style and game universe but also combine horror and hope, even as you continue adding content.

Sure, one can argue that angle works since Yoshi's Island games are basically prequels to the Super Mario titles, but much like Mario's own issues with facing Bowser time and again, it runs the risk of getting a little stale when it seems like Bowser is the only bad guy left in the Mario universe (except when an RPG comes along).

Interested gamers can sign up for the newsletter at http://deadislandepidemic.com/, Dead Island: Epidemic will be officially introduced at Gamescom 2013 runs from August 22 to 25 in Germany, so stay tuned for more information and keep an eye on Facebook for more news on the Dead Island universe!

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Today, I float in the strong tidal currents of Peconic Bay on Long Island, still mesmerized by the fact that everything in the universe is adrift — galaxies, planets, continents, and even detritus that washes up on beaches.

In Island Universe, he presents a set of possible universes through sculptures whose every element have their own individual, cosmological equivalent.