cosmos

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

As Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

"We are a way for the cosmos to understand itself.

If anything's in charge of this cosmos, they've got a hell of a lot of explaining to do.

What we find in the next few years will radically change our understanding of the cosmos, I'm sure.

\n The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical \n units and of the wave-lengths of its light.

As the surface of a swelling sphere lacks boundary and center, so \n the swelling volume of the cosmos was boundless and center-less.

The \n cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time.

Though the cosmos was ever of \n finite bulk, in relation to its minutiae of light-waves, it was boundless and \n center-less.

The ultimate \n centers of power, each at first coincident with the punctual cosmos, \n themselves generated the cosmical space by their disengagement from each other.

But as the \n spherical surface is centered on a point foreign to it, in a "third dimension," \n so the volume of the cosmos was centered in a point foreign to it, in a \n "fourth dimension.

[2] Some of us have provisionally concluded that a sensible way to bet is this: Over the very long term, the apparent on-going 'construction' of a cosmos, in which we seem to be participating, is likely to work out unimaginably wonderfully, but we really can't even speculate as to much more than that.

But each one \n retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single spirit of the whole; \n and each mirrored in itself aspects of all others throughout all the cosmical \n space and time.\n \n "No longer punctual, the cosmos was now a volume of inconceivably dense matter \n and inconceivably violent radiation, constantly expanding.

More and more rapidly they retreated \n from one another; and at the same time each cloud contracted, becoming first \n a ball of down and then a spinning lens and then a featured whirl of star-\n streams.\n\n "Still the cosmos expanded, till the galaxies that were most remote from one \n another were flying apart so swiftly that the creeping light of the cosmos \n could no longer bridge the gulf between them.