Editing Cosmic egg (section)

== Modern representations ==

=== Literature ===
In 1955 poet and writer Robert Graves published the mythography ''[[The Greek Myths]]'', a compendium of Greek mythology normally published in two volumes. Within this work Graves' imaginatively reconstructed "Pelasgian creation myth" features a supreme [[creator deity|creatrix]], [[Eurynome]], "The Goddess of All Things",<ref name="Graves1955"/> who arose naked from [[Chaos (cosmogony)|Chaos]] to part sea from sky so that she could dance upon the waves. Catching the [[Boreas (god)|north wind]] at her back and, rubbing it between her hands, she warms the ''[[pneuma]]'' and [[spontaneous generation|spontaneously generates]] the serpent [[Ophion]], who mates with her. In the form of a dove upon the waves, she lays the Cosmic Egg and bids Ophion to incubate it by coiling seven times around until it splits in two and hatches "all things that exist... sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs, and living creatures".<ref name="Graves1955">{{cite book |last=Graves |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Graves |year=1990 |orig-year=1955 |title=The Greek Myths |volume=1 |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn=978-0-14-001026-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKSxQQAACAAJ}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,866527,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606031045/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,866527,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 6, 2008 |title=Books: The Goddess & the Poet |publisher=TIME |access-date=5 December 2010 |date=July 18, 1955}}</ref>

=== Film ===
The ending of [[Stanley Kubrick]]’s film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' depicts the rebirth of humanity as a journey from beyond infinity back to earth in the form of a cosmic human embryo (or “Star Child”).

=== Cosmology ===
As the concept of a true [[initial singularity|singularity]] came under increasing criticism, alternative nonsingular "cosmic egg" ([[emergent Universe]]) scenarios started being developed.

* In 1913, [[Vesto Slipher]] published his observations that light from remote galaxies was [[redshift]]ed,<ref>
{{cite journal
 |last=Slipher |first=V. M.
 |date=1913
 |title=The radial velocity of the Andromeda Nebula
 |journal=[[Lowell Observatory Bulletin]]
 |volume=1 |issue=8
 |pages=56–57
 |bibcode=1913LowOB...2...56S
}}
</ref><ref>
{{cite web
 |title=Vesto Slipher – American astronomer
 |website=Britannica
 |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vesto-Slipher
}}
</ref> which was [[Great Debate (astronomy)|gradually]] accepted as meaning that all galaxies (except [[Andromeda Galaxy|Andromeda]]) are receding from the Earth.

* [[Alexander Friedmann]] predicted the same consequence in 1922 from [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]]'s equations of [[general relativity]], once the previous ad-hoc [[cosmological constant]] was removed from it (which had been inserted to conform to the preconceived eternal, static universe).
* [[Georges Lemaître]] proposed in 1927 that the [[cosmos]] originated from what he called the ''primeval atom''.
* [[Edwin Hubble]] observationally confirmed Lemaître's findings two years later, in 1929.<ref>
{{cite web
 |title=Astronomer sleuth solves mystery of Big Cosmos discovery
 |website=[[Space.com]]
|date=14 November 2011
|url=https://www.space.com/13616-universe-expansion-discovery-hubble-lemaitre-mystery.html
}}
</ref>

* In the late 1940s, [[George Gamow]]'s assistant [[Cosmology|cosmological]] researcher [[Ralph Alpher]], proposed the name [[ylem]] for the primordial substance that existed between the [[Big Crunch]] of the previous universe and the [[Big Bang]] of our own universe.<ref>{{cite book |year=1988 |title=The Cosmos |page=75 |series=Voyage through the Universe |place=New York, NY |publisher=Time-Life Books}} {{full citation needed |date=November 2020 |reason=No author nor editor}}</ref> ''Ylem'' is closely related to the concept of [[supersymmetry]].<ref>
{{cite book
 |first=Edward |last=Harrison
 |date=2003-05-08
 |title=Masks of the Universe: Changing ideas on the nature of the cosmos
 |page=224
 |publisher=Cambridge University Press
 |isbn=9781139437424
 |via=Google Books, Germany
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tSowGCP0kMIC&q=ylem+supersymmetrie&pg=PA224
}}
</ref>