cosmic time
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- noun
- Specialized
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tiempo cósmico
- Scientists estimate that cosmic time began with the Big Bang approximately 13.8 billion years ago.
- billion years of cosmic time
- years of cosmic time
- galaxies evolve over cosmic time
How do their wristwatch times when they move differ from cosmic time?
- How do their wristwatch times when they move differ from cosmic time?
- And then we'll talk about the world building itself and the vast sweep of cosmic time that is involved.
- We still don't know things like how a star is formed or how galaxies evolve in cosmic time.
- But the way we we've done diversity, you know, it's like until really not that long ago, I mean less than a blink in cosmic time.
- The speed of light is the ultimate cosmic time speed limit.
- And this is the software or awareness that recycles and evolves in cosmic time.
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For gatherer-hunters and ancient agricultural peoples, the circularity of cosmic time was reflected in the turn of the seasons in which new life follows the death of winter.
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Redshift is a consequence of the expansion of space over cosmic time.
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But in this concept of cosmic time, they do agree with each other by construction.
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The speed of light is the ultimate cosmic time speed limit.
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It's only temporary in cosmic time.
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And then we'll talk about the world building itself and the vast sweep of cosmic time that is involved.
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Dark energy inhibits the growth of galaxy clusters, so studying the population of clusters through cosmic time will influence future models of dark energy.
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Unveiling the history of star formation across cosmic time is fundamental to understanding how galaxies form and evolve.
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It used to be thought that galaxies have a standard type, and we now understand that galaxies can change their types or qualities over cosmic time.
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The study of cosmic time reveals how the universe has evolved over billions of years.
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cosmic' (pertaining to the universe) modifies 'time', so the phrase denotes time on a cosmic or universe-wide scale. This is a transparent semantic combination that a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer (though finer technical details about cosmology might require specialist knowledge).
Etymology
The term cosmic time comes from the image of a single clock for the whole universe. Cosmic means 'of the whole universe' and time is like a clock that started at the Big Bang and counts the universe's 'age', so scientists use cosmic time to talk about the universe's history.