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Of or pertaining to cosmology, or to the overall structure of the universe
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"
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"
{s} of cosmology (study of the origin and structure of the universe)
Of or pertaining to cosmology

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cosmological argument
A type of argument for the existence of God, advanced by a number of philosophers, including Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, which maintains that, since every thing and event has a cause, there must be a first cause (God) which is itself uncaused and which causes everything else
cosmological arguments
plural form of cosmological argument
cosmological city
Any city whose design is intended to reflect that of the cosmos
cosmological constant
A term added by Albert Einstein to his equations of general relativity in order to account for a supposed static universe
cosmological decade
Any of several divisions in the life of the universe on a logarithmic scale
cosmological horizon
A boundary to the universe that any particular observer can observe
cosmological natural selection
A hypothetical alternative to the anthropic principle that attempts to explain the complexity of the universe
cosmological perturbation theory
A mathematical theory that attempts to describe the evolution of the constituents of the universe following the Big Bang
cosmological principle
The assumption that the universe, on a large enough scale, is homogeneous and isotropic
cosmological redshift
That part of any redshift that is accounted for by the expansion of spacetime following the Big Bang
cosmological scale
The order of magnitude of time and space in the universe
cosmological term
The cosmological constant
cosmological argument
Form of argument used in natural theology to prove the existence of God. Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa theologiae, presented two versions of the cosmological argument: the first-cause argument and the argument from contingency. The first-cause argument begins with the fact that there is change in the world, and a change is always the effect of some cause or causes. Each cause is itself the effect of a further cause or set of causes; this chain moves in a series that either never ends or is completed by a first cause, which must be of a radically different nature in that it is not itself caused. Such a first cause is an important aspect, though not the entirety, of what Christianity means by God. The argument from contingency follows by another route a similar basic movement of thought from the nature of the world to its ultimate ground
cosmological constant
Term reluctantly added by Albert Einstein to his equations of general relativity in order to obtain a solution to the equations that described a static universe, as he believed it to be at the time. The constant has the effect of a repulsive force that acts against the gravitational attraction of matter in the universe. When Einstein heard of the evidence that the universe is expanding, he called the introduction of the cosmological constant the "biggest blunder" of his life. Recent developments suggest that in the early universe there may well have been a cosmological constant with a nonzero value
cosmological constant
an arbitrary constant in the equations of general relativity theory
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