What's the difference between cosmologist and cosmology?

Cosmologist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who describes the universe; one skilled in cosmology.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is because cosmologists believe only inflation can amplify the primordial gravitational waves into a detectable signal.
  • (2) The view of the heavens in red and blue speckles confirms with astonishing accuracy the theories cosmologists draw on to explain the evolution of the universe from a fraction of a second after the big bang.
  • (3) Inflation is cosmologists' favoured explanation for why the universe is so large.
  • (4) The cosmologist and astrophysicist Prof Martin Rees said the promises made by cryonics enthusiasts were “ridiculous and not to be taken seriously”.
  • (5) "Approaching a black hole, cosmologists define the event horizon as the point beyond which it is impossible to escape a guaranteed ultimate annihilation," Joshi said.
  • (6) Our work doesn’t rule out the possibility that they have gravitational waves, but there is dust in there and it seems to be higher than thought.” Cosmologists on Harvard’s Bicep2 team got excited when they spotted a twist in the polarisation of light picked up by their telescope at the south pole.
  • (7) Led by the cosmologist John Kovac , the Harvard researchers said they had spotted a twist in the ancient light that lingers in the universe from the time of the big bang.
  • (8) Writing in Nature, Steinhardt argues that if and when cosmologists find more convincing evidence for gravitational waves, they should publish their findings before making a formal announcement.
  • (9) So in the 1970s, cosmologists postulated a sudden enlargement of the universe, called inflation, that occurred in the first minuscule fraction of a second after the big bang.
  • (10) Cosmologist Stephen Hawking's carer has said that "working with Stephen is never dull" as she escorted him to the UK premiere of a biopic of his life.
  • (11) A cosmologist in our group said he understood for the first time how a political death could be as startling as the discovery of a new star.
  • (12) It was not an obvious environment for the Cambridge cosmologist, who as former Lucasian professor of mathematics held the position once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton.
  • (13) In an unprecedented boost for interstellar travel, the Silicon Valley philanthropist Yuri Milner and the world’s most famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking have announced $100m (£70m) for research into a 20-year voyage to the nearest stars, at one fifth of the speed of light.
  • (14) Though widely accepted among cosmologists, the work has not earned either scientist a Nobel prize.
  • (15) In 1992, cosmologist George Smoot and colleagues announced the startling news that they had found and mapped a pattern of tiny temperature fluctuations in the CMB using a Nasa satellite.
  • (16) Over large scales, the variations in hot and cold regions do not match cosmologists' expectations.
  • (17) The project will be the most comprehensive search for radio and optical signals coming from intelligent life beyond the solar system Launched on Monday at the Royal Society in London, with the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking, the Breakthrough Listen project has some of the world’s leading experts at the helm.
  • (18) Cosmologists working on Harvard's Bicep2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization) telescope at the south pole unveiled their surprise discovery at a press conference at Harvard, before they had published their results in a peer-reviewed journal.
  • (19) The Planck map also confirms a strange asymmetry in the CMB that has mystified cosmologists since it was first spotted by the WMAP mission.
  • (20) "If they do announce primordial gravitational waves on Monday, I will take a huge amount of convincing," said Hiranya Peiris, a cosmologist from University College London .

Cosmology


Definition:

  • (n.) The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating to the structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements of bodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, and the order and course of nature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
  • (2) Moreover, these notions take root within a coherent cosmological matrix which emphasizes the socially ordered flow of fertility fluids.
  • (3) A cult of healing through meditation that was observed in Bangkok, Thailand in 1974 is described, and the cult is interpreted in terms of two axes, the cosmological and the performative, and the dialectical, reciprocal and complementary relations between them.
  • (4) Low-alcohol-content fermented beverages are thoroughly enmeshed in the social, economic, commensal, and cosmological spheres of life among most peoples of sub-Saharan Africa.
  • (5) If the world of secrets is its own universe, here we have an expansion of the universe which brings to mind something cosmological.
  • (6) In the future, the same approach could be used to power self-driving cars, personal assistants in smartphones or conduct scientific research in fields from climate change to cosmology.
  • (7) "The overwhelming evidence from cosmology is there has to be something out there that is like dark matter, but that is the only statement we can make," said Pedro Ferreira , an astrophysicist at Oxford University.
  • (8) Definitive experimental tests will require that the theory also incorporate and improve upon the standard models of particle physics and cosmology.
  • (9) His career in cosmology began in 1970 when he joined a group, led by Nobel physics laureate Luis Alvarez at the University of California, Berkeley, that was using high-altitude balloons to look for signs of the antimatter that the big bang theory predicted should be abundant.
  • (10) Then with five elements of cosmology including three with dual-sense, as belonging to humorology, we have eight elements in all as cosmology-cum-humorology.
  • (11) The cosmologically oriented art of healing showing man in its original state (constitutio) its actual condition (destitutio) and the expected healthy final state (restitutio); 2.
  • (12) The cosmic elements of Chinese cosmology were Wood, Fire, Water, Earth and Metal.
  • (13) The various ramifications of the cosmology are discussed--the categorization of the cosmos itself as a hierarchical scheme, the relations between man and non-human forms of existence, the ideas concerning power and its manner of acquisition and use, the relation between power and restraint, etc.
  • (14) Ashker's journey from teenage tearaway to grizzled jailhouse scholar underpins a largely untold story of how Bobby Sands, Mayan cosmology, class-consciousness and the Arab spring inspired one of the biggest challenges to US penal policy in living memory.
  • (15) In the cosmology of that glamour, the place of women was in the spectator boxes reserved for the players’ intimates.
  • (16) Assumptions behind Siberian, particularly Khanty, shamanism are examined through analysis of training, seances and cosmology.
  • (17) For now at least, the standard model of cosmology, which describes a universe made up of ordinary and dark matter evolving according to the equations of gravity formulated originally by Einstein, including a mysterious cosmological constant term, is in excellent shape.
  • (18) We are dealing in both treatises with a medicine based on a cosmological principle.
  • (19) It is obvious that Air, so important in the cosmologies of India and Greece, is no where explicit in Chinese cosmology.
  • (20) According to David Bray, author of Social Space and Governance in Urban China , not only did the walled city “embody a complex array of cosmologically determined symbolic spaces, designed to reinforce the might of the emperor and his government, but also, in its simple grid design it provided the template for the ordering of everyday social life.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Night view of Changan Avenue, the 10-lane thoroughfare which slices east-west through the city.

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