visible universe

collocation in English

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visible
adjective
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/ˈvɪz.ə.bəl/us
/ˈvɪz.ə.bəl/
able 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 ofvisibleanduniversefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This, by the way, is yet another argument for human uniqueness in thevisibleuniverse.
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Plasmas make up more than 99% of thevisibleuniverse.
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This quantity determines the size of thevisibleuniverseand is key to determining its age.
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The analysis considers several possible assumptions that would be needed for estimates, and suggests that thevisibleuniversehas more entropy than previously thought.
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This asymmetry of matter and antimatter in thevisibleuniverseis one of the greatest unsolved problems in physics.
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By the 21st century, the overall structure of thevisibleuniversewas becoming clearer, with superclusters forming into a vast web of filaments and voids.
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In a more speculative vein, he has (from the 1970s onwards) been interested in anthropic reasoning, and the possibility that ourvisibleuniverseis part of a vaster multiverse.
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It is the everlasting presupposition of particular things; the totality of all existence; out of it the wholevisibleuniverseproceeds, eventually to be consumed by it.
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The term causal horizon does not necessarily refer to event horizons only, but could also stand for the horizon of thevisibleuniverse, for instance.
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As physical laws and processes appear common throughout thevisibleuniverse, however, it is expected that these galaxies will likewise have evolved similar abundances of elements.
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