Sentences with phrase «on a cosmic scale»

In this view, not only is our planet one among many, but even our entire universe is insignificant on the cosmic scale of things.
At least on a cosmic scale, the presence of life may increase longevity for planets.
It must be emphasized, however, that what has been said applies to creativity on the cosmic scale.
This conversion occurred on a cosmic scale about 13 billion years ago.
That is the question the Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems, or HOSTS, Survey was tasked with answering, albeit on a cosmic scale.
Ultimately, it looks like we might have «a finely tuned and tenderly detailed love story of two people told on a cosmic scale» to look forward to.
There is a difference between life being insignificant on a cosmic scale, yet significant on a planet where we cohabit with 6 billion other people.
«Gaia will greatly advance our understanding of the universe on all cosmic scales,» Timo Prusti, a Gaia project scientist at ESA, said in a news release announcing the discovery.
Here Paul reflects the current eschatological conviction that they were living at the end of an age — a wicked age that could end only in disaster on a cosmic scale.
The phenomena of life and mind, though quantitatively infinitesimal on a cosmic scale, attest to the potential for non-conformity that must be present even in the inorganic world in Order that these novel patterns could have emerged in evolution.
It is possible that my time scale is too infinitesimal to recognize organization on a cosmic scale, but here I am disturbed by the big - bang theory of cosmology.
Is it the highest level or is it perhaps relatively low on a cosmic scale of gradations of comprehending dimensions?
The Jewish interest in angels, developing into a hierarchy of named angels, owed much to Persian influence, as did also, probably, their increasing concern with an eschatological judgment on a cosmic scale.
In Einstein's theory, the notion of gravity as an attractive force still holds for all known forms of matter and energy, even on the cosmic scale.
(That conclusion assumes gravity behaves the same on cosmic scales as it does on Earth — a logical but untested article of faith.
But addressing the global nature of human impact may require help from belief systems large enough to conceptualize on a cosmic scale.
The growth happens so fast that the cloud is left humming, and a related hum may have appeared on cosmic scales during the rapid expansion of the early universe — an epoch that cosmologists refer to as the period of inflation.
Thus, at a distance of 700 million light - years — not very far on a cosmic scale — it is barely observable through the background glow of stars in our own galaxy.
«We are measuring structures that are grand on a cosmic scale,» says Zemcov, «and these sizes are associated with galaxies bunching together on a large - scale pattern.»
The hypothesis of competition for resources on a cosmic scale creating the conditions for the evolution of discreet extra-terrestrials (16...
About 400,000 years later (very quickly on a cosmic scale), these particles cooled and coalesced into neutral hydrogen gas.
It's very short - lived on a cosmic scale, Blair says.
The LMC is only about 163,000 light - years from our galaxy, the Milky Way, and so is very close on a cosmic scale.
And its implications are not limited to esoteric concerns on cosmic scales — it has its down - to - Earth impacts as well.
This year's Nobel prize in physics recognises the power of nothing on cosmic scales.
The event was catastrophic on a cosmic scale — a merger of black holes that violently shook the surrounding fabric of space and time, and sent a blast of space - time vibrations known as gravitational waves rippling across the Universe at the speed of light.
Explanation: By chance, a collision of two galaxies has created a surprisingly recognizable shape on a cosmic scale.
Though just a small step on a cosmic scale, it will be a significant one for humans, because it will require going away from Earth with very limited capability to return.
Even after Galactus took away part of his powers, Morg was still a fairly major player on a cosmic scale, and he was able to take out an entire fleet of Skrull ships.
Good versus evil on a cosmic scale, special effects whipping across the screen with a wild abandon not unlike the whirlwind to be found in the second circle of Hell, and a cynical anti-hero... Read More»
As in the comics, the Mad Titan will try to win Death's love by committing genocide on a cosmic scale and extinguishing half the souls in the universe.
Through sound and film installations, photographs, sculptures, and performances, «Going Space» invites visitors into migratory spaces via a fluid geography, and makes our worldliness resonate on a cosmic scale.
The entire gallery space is transformed into Mori's world through 35 sculptures, drawings, photographs, sound and video works, strung together into a narrative of birth, death and rebirth — a continuous circle of life force that the artist observes on a cosmic scale.
Kusama surmounted the cult of the male genius to launch an art that seeks to demolish individualism with abstraction on a cosmic scale, to this very day.
Scientists have recently dated what they claim to be the oldest fossils showing that even that 3 - million - years is the blink of an eye on a cosmic scale.
It turns out that blazars are powered surprisingly like the exhausts of jet engines, albeit on a cosmic scale, says astronomer and lead author Alan Marscher of Boston University.
«They're almost certainly caused by something ordinary, at least on a cosmic scale.
It's a finely tuned and tenderly detailed love story of two people told on a cosmic scale, and it's one of the year's greatest relationship films.
On the cosmic scale, Peirce's agapism in part accommodates the characterization of radical creativity suggested earlier.
On the cosmic scale, the intelligibility that agape originates is a harmony; it is an orderliness of continuities among things and events.
Is this God's plan, on a cosmic scale, to avoid killing us all?
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