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the study of the origin of the universe

She believes in the Big Bang theory of cosmology.

The steady-state theory of cosmology suggests that the universe is constantly producing matter and infinitely expanding.
the multiverse hypothesis in cosmology speculates that ours may be but one of many universes
the seven-headed snake deity of the Hindu-Buddhist cosmology
They think that what's true for acute physical processes is probably applicable to cosmology itself.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
ALBERT EINSTEIN published his general theory of relativity in 1916, profoundly affecting the study of physics and cosmology for years.
Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe
Like Reverend Hale and the others on this stage, we conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology.
Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
In the distorted cosmology of the Afrikaner, the Nationalist victory was like the Israelites' journey to the Promised Land.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
A parent, intentionally or not, imposes a cosmology on the little child—
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
Besides, I was trying to get the hang of his cosmology, so I egged him on, sometimes even badgered him into narrating Haiti.
Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Everything I see in him corresponds to his pamphlet on Biblical Cosmology.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
For although it might be tolerable if human reason and knowledge held themselves within earthly bounds and treated the subject-object experience as real within that sphere, the moment it reached out into the eternal riddle, into so-called cosmology or cosmogony, the joke was over, and presumptu-ousness had achieved the acme of monstrosity.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
Every morning before dawn our Base Camp sirdar-an avuncular, highly respected, forty Prayer flags are printed with holy Buddhist invocations-most commonly om manipadm hum-which are dispatched to God with each flap of the pennant. often prayer flags bear the red creatures in the Sherpa image of a winged horse in addition to written prayers; horses are sac cosmology and are believed to carry the prayers heavenward with special speed.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
"My work includes as much of physics and cosmology as I can take in," Alessandro said, "but that hardly makes me a physicist."
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
According to her mother's cosmology, the world was against her and no one could change this, because this was a curse.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
And I was thinking, how about including a section on the cosmology imparted by television as artificial caregiver?
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
All right, so we assume everyone understands cosmology.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
Cosmology, let's see .... what we believe, subconsciously, implicitly, or both, how the universe works—you want to add something?
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter
We go on to say that parents pass along this cosmology to children through their behaviors, their reactions to daily events, often mundane—You look puzzled.
Amy Tan -- The Bonesetter's Daughter

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