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cosmological

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cos·mol·o·gy  (kz-ml-j)
n. pl. cos·mol·o·gies
1. The study of the physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time and space.
2.
a. The astrophysical study of the history, structure, and constituent dynamics of the universe.
b. A specific theory or model of this structure and these dynamics.
cosmo·logic (-m-ljk), cosmo·logi·cal adj.
cosmo·logi·cal·ly adv.
cos·molo·gist n.
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Adj.1.cosmological - pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe; "cosmologic science"; "cosmological redshift"; "cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe"
cosmogenic, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmologic
2.cosmological - pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality; "cosmologic philosophy"; "a cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God"
cosmologic
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cosmological [ˌkɒzməˈlɒdʒɪkəl] adj [science, theorist] → cosmologique
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An Einstein equation without any cosmological constant is given by S(X,Y)-[1/2]rg(X,Y) = KT(X,Y) = G(X,Y), [for all]X,Y[member of]TM, (7) where r is the scalar curvature at any point of the space time and K is the gravitational constant [6].
Space time with generalized covariant recurrent energy momentum tensor by Bhattacharyya, A.; De, T.; Debnath, D. / Tamsui Oxford Journal of Mathematical Sciences
These measurements of the cosmic microwave background-a faintly glowing relic of the hot, dense, young universe-put limits on proposed alternatives to the standard model of cosmology and provide further support for the standard cosmological model, confirming that dark matter and dark energy make up 95 percent of everything in existence, while ordinary matter makes up just 5 percent.
Cosmologists' standard view of the universe confirmed by scientists by Asian News International
The research differed from previous studies on supernovas, which are the explosive deaths of massive stars, and provided the "strongest evidence yet that dark energy is the cosmological constant," he said, similar to the energy of empty space.
'Dark energy' expands, contracts universe: researchers by AFP / AFP Global Edition
 
 
 
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