physical universe
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphysicalanduniverse
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physical
adjective
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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universe
noun
uk/ˈjuː.nɪ.vɜːs/us/ˈjuː.nə.vɝːs/
everything that exists, especially all physical matter, including all the stars, planets, galaxies, etc. ...
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(Definition ofphysicalanduniversefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofphysical universe
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The singularity provides, then, a way of setting a boundary to thephysicaluniverse.
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And either way, it becomes quite mysterious how minds can exist in aphysicaluniverse.
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It is a mistake to impose human limitations on thephysicaluniverse.
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There are concrete systems far more complex than anyphysicaluniverse.
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Otherwise, thephysicaluniverseis devoid of phenomenal consciousness.
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We must remember that in speaking of the history of ' the world ', we are not referring to the planet earth, or even to the entirephysicaluniverse.
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It is hard to conceive of a being who creates aphysicaluniversein accordance with an end without the creation being an event with a certain temporal duration.
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It is aphysicaluniverse.
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And yet the remains of the past nonetheless persisted in existing in the fabric of reality, existing as foreign bodies in the premodernphysicaluniverse.
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Only astronomers contemplate the 13.7 billion year history of the cosmos, and the vast majority of them concentrate on thephysicaluniverse.
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For the quantum physicist, alternations in thephysicaluniverseare not always reducible to transformational processes; sometimes they simply re-ect inherent indeterminacy or ambivalence.
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Perhaps faced with a losing battle in understanding thephysicaluniverse, theologians began to confine their purview into the realm of subjective experiences.
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The reason for this tacit assumption is the usual human weakness : we have an unfortunate habit of trying to impose our current human perspectives on thephysicaluniverse.
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Since there are infinitely many variations of the actualphysicaluniverse, the basis of the little totality is infinite.
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Easily : instead of true annihilation or creation, ' mimic ' that tactic by (supernaturally) transporting material between thephysicaluniverseand a non-physical repository.
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Imagine yourself now as a disembodied intelligence, not dependent on the evolvingphysicaluniverseof the thoughtexperiment, but looking on with interest, and applying the same epistemic standards as now.
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Other forms of realism identify mathematics with the concretephysicaluniverse.
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As the universe cooled, the quantumphysicaluniverseemerged, giving rise to probabilistic prototemporality.
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It enjoys another universe that could have everything that thephysicaluniversecontains and more.
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How can the human mind occur in thephysicaluniverse?
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