Sentences with phrase «time even cosmic»

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Whitehead does not say what the time - span of an actual occasion is, even in the cosmic epoch in which we live.

Even Professor Leakey's recent extension of possible humanoid remains as far back as 2,000,000 B. C. leaves man (if this be man) with but a brief history compared to earth time, to say nothing of the general cosmic process.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

Of course, however the Christian Incarnation might be thought to relate to time, this «structural incarnation» need not be assumed to be temporal in the sense of resulting from some great decision, emanation or evolution in cosmic history; what must be recognized initially is simply that it is a perennial peculiarity that reality has or even must have the exact basic order that it does.

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

He expects Swift will pinpoint the time when the universe began to create huge stars by spotting even more distant GRBs, from the first 200 million to 500 million years of cosmic history.

In addition to pushing the cosmic frontier to even earlier times, the telescope will be able to dissect the galaxy light of EGS - zs8 - 1 seen with the Spitzer telescope and provide astronomers with more detailed insights into its gas properties.

This time they said we needed to show that even in orbit, where it is dealing with cosmic rays and other noise, the telescope would be sensitive enough to detect Earth - size planets.

Given an infinite time span, which is what the cosmic egg scenario calls for, such a collapse would be unavoidable — even though the odds of it occurring at any one time are small — implying that the universe could not have existed forever.

In addition to pushing the cosmic frontier to even earlier cosmic times, the Webb telescope will be able to dissect the infrared galaxy light of EGS - zs8 - 1 seen with the Spitzer Space Telescope and will provide astronomers with much more detailed insights into its gas properties.

A person who is in contact with this inner cosmic principle is without fear and has courage in all circumstances, even in the darkest times.

It's theological time, cosmic time even.

I recall at the time that Svensmark was conducting research on our own sun's influence on cosmic rays modulated by the solar wind, but you had the big cosmos picture in mind even then.