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In Christian theology, the word is sometimes used synonymously with aion to refer to 'worldly life' or 'this world' or 'this age' as opposed to the afterlife or world to come, although 'aion/aeon' is also at times used in a more other-worldly sense as the eternal plane of the divine The concept of cosmos as the created universe and its arrangement has been important in Christendom since its very inception, as it is heavily used in the New Testament and occurs over 180 times. In theology, the cosmos is the created heavenly bodies (sun, moon, wandering stars, and fixed stars). See also: Religious cosmology, Hellenistic philosophy and Christianity, and Orphism (religion)

#Cosmic osmos full

In physical cosmology, the uncapitalized term cosmic signifies a subject with a relationship to the universe, such as 'cosmic time' (time since the Big Bang), ' cosmic rays' (high energy particles or radiation detected from space), and ' cosmic microwave background' (microwave radiation detectable from all directions in space).Īccording to Charles Peter Mason in Sir William Smith Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870, see book screenshot for full quote), Pythagoreans described the universe. Our particular cosmos, the observable universe, is generally capitalized as the Cosmos. In physical cosmology, the term cosmos is often used in a technical way, referring to a particular spacetime continuum within a (postulated) multiverse. It includes speculative concepts such as a multiverse, when these are being discussed. Physical cosmology (often simply described as 'cosmology') is the scientific study of the universe, from the beginning of its physical existence. The term became part of modern language in the 19th century when geographer and polymath Alexander von Humboldt resurrected the use of the word, assigning it to his five-volume treatise, Kosmos (1845–1862), which influenced modern and somewhat holistic perception of the universe as one interacting entity. In Modern Greek, κόσμος has developed, along with primary 'the universe, the world', the meaning of 'people' (collectively).

Thus kosmos had an important secondary sense of 'ornaments, decoration' (compare kosmokomes 'dressing the hair,' and cosmetic). The verb κοσμεῖν ( κοσμεῖν) meant generally 'to dispose, prepare', but especially 'to order and arrange (troops for battle), to set (an army) in array' also 'to establish (a government or regime)', 'to adorn, dress' (especially of women). Greek κόσμος 'order, good order, orderly arrangement' is a word with several main senses rooted in those notions. The philosopher Pythagoras first used the term kosmos ( Ancient Greek: κόσμος, Latinized kósmos) for the order of the universe.