The star’s Arabic name derives from a word meaning “the groin” of the celestial Bear that plods silently around the north celestial pole (the name mistakenly drawn from Merak, in the Dipper’s bowl).
Nor are the theories presented in this paper at variance with the essential tenets of the Judeo-Christian stream of thought.
I have cited this quotation because it shows that the concept of the universe which at least some physicists are now coming to accept is identical in its essential aspects with the one known to the learned elite in selected civilizations and cultures of high attainment in the ancient world.