Aeon
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Date: 2021-12-05

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The word aeon /ˈiːɒn/, also spelled eon （in American English）, originally meant "life", "vital force" or "being", "generation" or "a period of time",
though it tended to be translated as "age" in the sense of "ages", "forever", "timeless" or "for eternity".
It is a Latin transliteration from the koine Greek word ὁ αἰών （ho aion）, from the archaic αἰϝών （aiwon）.
In Homer it typically refers to life or lifespan.
Its latest meaning is more or less similar to the Sanskrit word kalpa and Hebrew word olam.
A cognate Latin word aevum or aeuum （cf. αἰϝών） for "age" is present in words such as longevity and mediaeval.
Although the term aeon may be used in reference to a period of a billion years （especially in geology, cosmology and astronomy）, its more common usage is for any long, indefinite period.
Aeon can also refer to the four aeons on the geologic time scale that make up the Earth's history, the Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and the current aeon, Phanerozoic.
In astronomy an aeon is defined as a billion years （109 years, abbreviated AE）.
Roger Penrose uses the word aeon to describe the period between successive and cyclic Big Bangs within the context of conformal cyclic cosmology.
Plato used the word aeon to denote the eternal world of ideas, which he conceived was "behind" the perceived world, as demonstrated in his famous allegory of the cave.
Christianity's idea of "eternal life" comes from the word for life, zoe, and a form of aeon, which could mean life in the next aeon, the Kingdom of God, or Heaven, just as much as immortality, as in John 3:16.
According to the Christian doctrine of universal reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word "aeon" to mean a
long period （perhaps 1000 years） and the word "aeonian" to mean "during a long period"; Thus there was a time before the aeons,
and the aeo...