Assertion: universe | /r/HasAspect | beginning
Facets:
value: namely
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Discoveries in the early 20th century have suggested that the universe had a beginning and that space has been expanding since then, and is currently still expanding at an increasing rate.
text: In fact, the universe may have no beginning at all.
text: Since such a series of temporal phenomena cannot continue to infinity because an actual infinite is impossible, the world must have had a beginning and a cause of its existence, namely, God (Craig 1979: part 1).
text: it had neither a beginning and will have no end–but is spatially finite.
text: Perhaps inspired by the Zoroastrian concept of the Day of Judgement, the belief that the Universe had a beginning and end would go on to inform western concepts of cosmology even to the present day.
text: First, the big bang theory and the scientific evidence behind it imply that space, time and the universe as a whole had a beginning.
text: The big bang model suggests that the universe had a beginning and that it has been expanding since then.
text: Traditional cosmological models generally hold that the universe had a beginning, so support for an eternal universe could prove that traditional cosmologies were all wrong.
text: In what follows we will first sketch out a very brief history of the argument, note the two basic types of deductive cosmological arguments, and then provide a careful analysis of examples of each: first, two arguments from contingency, one based on a relatively strong version of the principle of sufficient reason and one based on a weak version of that principle; and second, an argument from the alleged fact that the universe had a beginning and the impossibility of an infinite temporal regress of causes.
text: Fifth, if the universe has a beginning, what is the cause of that beginning?
text: How this all happened in the first \(10^{-35}\) seconds and subsequently is a matter of serious speculation and debate; what advocates of premise 2 maintain is that since the universe and all its material elements originate in the Big Bang, the universe is temporally finite and thus had a beginning.
text: The steady-state model asserts that although the universe is expanding, it nevertheless does not change its appearance over time (the perfect cosmological principle); the universe has no beginning and no end.