Adam Riess

Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the universe from collapsing. And so he discovered, in his theory of gravity, something like this dark energy - he called it a cosmological constant - could play this role, pushing things away.

American Scientist

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Italian Journalist

Lee Smolin

We know that the expansion of our universe is accelerating, which means a number called the cosmological constant must be positive.

American Physicist

Jim Peebles

I am deeply impressed with the way dark matter has explained cosmological observations.

Canadian Scientist

Used in discussions about space, galaxies, and the universe's origins; often found in science-related texts.

Scientific Context

Found in scholarly articles or books, not used in everyday conversation.

Academic Jargon

Don't confuse 'cosmological,' which is scientific, with 'astrological,' related to horoscopes and superstitions.

Not Astrology

Often used in discussions about the universe's nature and our place in it, from a philosophical standpoint.

Philosophical Debate

While it can be related to spiritual beliefs, it's not necessarily religious or about a deity's role in the universe.

Not Always Religious

Can relate to views on whether humans have a special place or purpose in the universe.

Human Centric

 So, as the universe expands as it is doing right now, there will be more and more dark energy. Dark matter and baryonic matter, on the other hand, don't expand with the universe and become more diluted. Because of this property of the cosmological constant, the future universe will be more and more dominated by dark energy,

The death of the...

 should tend to have more favorable conditions for the existence of intelligent beings such as ourselves. But what if that tentative cosmological connection between entropy and intelligence hints at a deeper relationship? What if intelligent behavior doesn't just correlate with the production of long-term entropy,

Alex Wissner-Gross: A...

 to set borders around a thing that we've perceived in the whirling chaos of existence. We say what the thing means and fit that in a system of meanings. Chaos becomes cosmos. The universe is translated into a cosmological construct of knowledge. And let's be honest, we need some logical cosmic order,

What's the definition of...

 of the different phases through magnifications they realized that the moon was not just a perfect unblemished circle but in fact it was of world and if the moon was world and it had geological features then perhaps the earth was itself a cosmological object

How The Moon Affects Our...

 Some argue that leading models for where the universe came from still imply that Boltzmann brains are more likely than human brains, suggesting something’s amiss. Others counter that slight modifications of the cosmological models would avoid the problem,

The Boltzmann brain...

 there was no life on Earth at all. For almost all the years of life on Earth, there was no intelligent life. Only after we learned to pass knowledge from one generation to the next, did civilization become possible. In cosmological terms,

Roger Ebert: Remaking my...

 everything within one of these ellipses is this is indistinguishable from one model from the other and so we want to make those ellipses as small as possible because that's saying we have a tighter and tighter bound on our cosmological

Making sense of...

 And I would link that to something called the cosmological constant. And you don't know what is operating, but something is operating there. And ambiguity, to me, is very uncomfortable in my life, and I have it. Moral ambiguity.

Where does creativity...

 dark energy, that pushed space and particles apart. Called the cosmological constant, the variable may provide clues for the expansion of space and time. Much about the dark universe is left to be discovered.

Dark Universe 101 PIPE...

 my second favorite tool for addressing these large cosmological questions is the biggest laboratory we know, the universe itself. Observatories with capabilities from visible light

Cosmological