From the Greek chaos, emptiness, and cosmos, order.
A term now largely reserved to describe a certain psychological state where an individual is insane, but predictably so, chaocosm was originally coined by physicists in the early days of the Space Race, and used liberally when referring to the universe's mysteries:
"This previously undiscovered black hole further vindicates Thewall Brewster's views on the chaocosm inherent in our universe." (From a paper presented to the Minsk Confederacy of Cosmologists, April 1952)
"...and I feel above all that this theory will lead us to discover new chaocosmic aspects that contribute to the as-yet unexplained orbit..." (Excerpt from a letter dated 7 June, 1953, from the great Sir Blenhem Shipley, Head of the London Space Agency)
"Please do not touch chaocosmic strobe without seeing Prof. Green first." (Memo, Cosmological Science Unit, Utah University, circa 1956)
Ultimately, however, the notion of chaocosm is regarded by many academics as underlying the basis for scientific research and experiment, given that its implication of ordered chaos in fact points to the unknown, but tangible and discoverable explanations that exist for all apparently inexplicable phenomena.
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