Donald Trump inhabits a universe constructed of carefully arranged alt-facts.
Among the wide range of Asian artworks are models of the universe constructed as demonstrations of religious devotion, and colorful portrayals of spiritual beliefs about the cosmos.
The late-16th-century Portuguese epic The Lusiads vividly portrays the celestial spheres as a "great machine of the universe" constructed by God.
The fact that the Arabs attacked Israel and were vanquished in 1948 , 1967and 1973, losing land in the process, is irrelevant in the a-historical parallel universe constructed by supporters of the Palestinians and the rejectors of Israel.
Descartes designed a hypothetical "Book of Nature" to explain how everything in the universe was constructed.
It is here that Laclau's words illuminate the present crisis: this universe, this constructed normality, is tragically familiar.
Depending on how the universe is constructed, extra dimensions, mini black holes, and the source of so-called "dark matter" may all be revealed at CERN.
His work may feature SF's faster-than-light travel and sentient tattoos, but he rejects its appetite for heroes, which he considers to be "pernicious … a lie about the way the universe is constructed".
It turns out that — at least, in the universe Fuller constructed — being dead is no easier than being alive: the reapers are expected to find apartments for themselves, do their own laundry, and get paying jobs.
Descartes's statement of the sine law of refraction, relating the angles of incidence and emergence at interfaces of the media through which light passes, had added a new mathematical regularity to the science of light, supporting the conviction that the universe is constructed according to mathematical regularities.
