noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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early
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Presumably, in the very early universe all the dimensions would have been very curved.
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These are thought to have developed from small differences in the density of the early universe from one region to another.
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At early times the universe would probably be in a disordered state.
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The early universe could not have been completely homogeneous and uniform because that would violate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics.
entire
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Later paradigms saw the entire universe as being made up of the same kinds of material substances.
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The human was now seen as a biomechanical machine, as was the entire universe .
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The entire universe seemed to be the source.
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The entire universe will have heard of her by then.
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Nowadays, physicists routinely extract entire universes out of nothing-on paper, anyway.
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The entire universe was utterly simple.
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Before us the entire universe is spread out like a bolt of black silk unfurled.
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It is now increasingly apparent that the entire universe from vast galaxies to microscopic cells unfolds through systems of spontaneous self-organization.
parallel
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A parallel universe , mutually incompatible, like matter and anti-matter.
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This wired Brad Pitt will grab you, coming on as he does like an oddly arresting visitor from some parallel universe .
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In the later book, Wells changes his mind and describes an advanced anarchistic society existing in a parallel universe .
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She seemed to live in a parallel universe .
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Her real life glimmered and settled in the parallel universe , where no one here could reach her.
physical
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Newton had established a physical universe capable of being understood by reason.
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First, Copernicus eliminated the discontinuity between the terrestrial world and the rest of the physical universe .
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Yet today information sent back from extraterrestrial space is unveiling an awesome picture of our physical universe .
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And the physical universe had no opinion.
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It is a receiver and transmitter of all energy patterns existing in our physical universe .
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He supposes that fluctuations may arise in nothing, and sooner or later produce a physical universe .
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Each creature perceives just exactly the right amount of the energetic interactions which comprise the physical universe and its creatures.
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But that being is not the physical universe , which seems both dependent and contingent.
possible
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Consider the three apparently possible universes just mentioned.
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It is not the case, therefore, that every possible universe can be actualised.
whole
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Not content with stars and galaxies, they try to understand the whole universe , its provenance and fate.
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In the whole universe there was nothing else; all was black, empty, silent, endless.
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Contemporary cosmology even suggests that the whole universe might have appeared out of the quantum vacuum: the ultimate free lunch.
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Suddenly I heard a piercing whistle that seemed to resound through the whole universe .
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Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms, and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe .
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One can say that the whole material universe has a certain colour, but not that it has a certain position.
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The microcosm becomes the macrocosm: the key to the whole universe may well be hidden in one hydrogen atom.
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Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state.
■ VERB
create
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Creator-man will simply create his own universe around him, precisely as he wishes it to be.
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As the century turned, both still and moving photography were beginning to create an alternative universe .
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They create a musical universe dominated by multiple percussion and underpinned by Mazinho Lima s tirelessly inventive bass guitar.
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One ought to be able to examine the transactions which create and generate particular universes of meaning.
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The people must seize power and create their own universe .
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Eventually, therefore, it may be possible to specify the underlying conceptual grammars which create theistic and religious universes of meaning.
exist
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Moreover, even the types of particles that exist in the universe would depend on the temperature.
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The set of all possibilities clearly includes, as a subset, all possible values that could ever exist in any universe .
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The host of different beings attributed with consciousness that exist within the Chewong universe have structurally similar qualities to humans.
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In the later book, Wells changes his mind and describes an advanced anarchistic society existing in a parallel universe .
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This doesn't mean that the conclusion that life exists all around the universe is necessarily wrong.
expand
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This is the direction of time in which the universe is expanding rather than contracting.
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The same can be said of the postmodern discovery that the universe is expanding .
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That motivation disappeared when it was discovered that the universe is expanding .
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But as the universe expanded , the temperature of the radiation decreased.
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And why is the direction of time in which disorder increases the same as that in which the universe expands ?
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The new simulations, it is claimed, show that instead the universe will go on expanding for ever.
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Will the universe eventually stop expanding and start contracting, or will it expand for ever?
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In between the universe expands , particles pop into existence, galaxies coalesce and stars burst into life.
mean
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One ought to be able to examine the transactions which create and generate particular universes of meaning .
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Eventually, therefore, it may be possible to specify the underlying conceptual grammars which create theistic and religious universes of meaning .
understand
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The symbolic Atoms' sure orbits and definite interstices represent the understanding of the universe made known.
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Not content with stars and galaxies, they try to understand the whole universe , its provenance and fate.
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It is quite remarkable that algorithmic compressions are possible, and they illuminate our understanding of the universe enormously.
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The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe.
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We can never understand why the universe began, since there is no reason why it began.
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One has to use a quantum theory of gravity to understand how the universe began.
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If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the secrets of life/nature/the universe etc
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Nobody expects you to reveal the secrets of the universe, only produce a well-written story.
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We cease trying vainly to understand the secrets of the Universe as we have hitherto tried to do.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Archer accepted his wealth as part of the structure of his universe .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I gave the same seminar about the problems of the inflationary universe , just as in Moscow.
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Illness would be about disturbances of balance - within individuals, families, and societies in relation to the universe .
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Not only does our understanding of the universe change as the centuries go by: it improves.
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The choice of this class of spaces determines what state the universe is in.
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The Dark Times were again descending over the universe .
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The particles go off into baby universes that branch off from our universe.
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Thus, they believed there must be ten bodies moving about the finite universe .