He was the first human to attain enlightenment in the present cosmic age.

An old, old heraldry carried down through cosmic ages by these metal men.

Families cannot exist for long on their own and neither can Terra if torn by internecine strife in the cosmic age.

Jains revere him as the twenty-fourth and last tirthankara of present cosmic age.

The cosmic age problem is a historical problem in astronomy concerning the age of the universe.

The interplay of Levity and Gravity can take on many different forms which are distinguished essentially by differences in cosmic age.

The incarnation described in the Mudgala Purana took place in different cosmic ages.

The Cosmic Age was demolished in the late 1990s to make room for Disney California Adventure.

Dr. Tanvir said the low cosmic age estimates are very likely incorrect, presumably because some of the assumptions made by cosmologists are wrong.

Each of the four sectors was ruled by an emperor and populated by denizens of an earlier cosmic age (kalpa).

The statue is dedicated to Vasupujya, the twelfth Jain Tirthankara of the present cosmic age.

For each of the active galaxies the researchers inspected, they chose nine comparable nonactive galaxies of roughly the same cosmic age and thus stage of evolution.

Only a decade ago, astronomers argued over wide differences in expansion-rate estimates, which resulted in a range of cosmic ages running from 10 billion to 20 billion years.

But most specialists in stellar evolution doubt that the ages of the oldest stars could be reduced to as low as the current low estimates for the cosmic age.

It marks the anniversary of Nirvana (final release) or liberation of Mahavira's soul, the twenty fourth and last Jain Tirthankar of present cosmic age.

The question of cosmic age was complicated by the fact that other reputable scientists, using different measurement techniques were consistently getting higher estimates, showing that he universe was more than 15 billion years old.

As tools of astronomy have improved - especially with the launching of the Hubble telescope, which orbits above the Earth's distorting atmosphere - discoveries have tended to lower the postulated cosmic age.

But it is insufficient to resolve the cosmic age crisis, for scientists express confidence that the oldest stars are at least 12 billion to 16 billion years old and could not have preceded the universe itself.

For example, Satya Loka is the "place of truth", and Satya Yuga is the "Age of Truth" - one of the four cyclical cosmic ages in Hinduism.

According to Jain Cosmology, when the third ara of the avasarpani (present descending half-cycle of cosmic age) was nearing its end, felicities due to ten type of Kalpavriksha (wish fulfiling trees) started declining.

The Anaheim motel in the movie, the "Atomic Age Lodge," was in reality the Stovall's Cosmic Age Lodge on Harbor Boulevard, across the street from the then-Disneyland parking lot.

At a news conference at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., where the Hubble telescope operations are directed, Dr. Freedman said the team, in arriving at the cosmic age estimate, took account of factors that could skew the distance measure.

During the first 3000 years (the first cosmic age), Ahriman espied the light of Ormuzd but "seeing valor and supremacy superior to his own, he fled back to the darkness and fashioned many demons - a creation destructive and ready for battle" (Bundahishn 4.12).

Towards the end of the second cosmic age (the second 3000 years), Ahriman, who until then has resisted the exhortations of his demons, is roused from his impotence by Jeh's beguiling devices, who promises to destroy the creatures of Ohrmazd (Bundahishn 3.1-7).

If any cosmic age estimate based on present expansion rates should be confirmed as being lower than stellar ages, Dr. Alexei V. Filippenko, an astronomer at the University of California at Berkeley, said, "it might lead to a revolution in cosmology," adding: "We may have to consider some new, perhaps wild ideas.