cosmological principle

Noun

Meaning

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cosmological principle

(astronomy) The assumption that the universe, on a large enough scale, is homogeneous and isotropic.

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Examples

Peacock (1999), chapter 3 That space is undergoing metric expansion is shown by direct observational evidence of the Cosmological principle and the Copernican principle, which together with Hubble's law have no other explanation. Source: Internet

Modern mathematical cosmology is based on the assumption that the Cosmological principle is almost, but not exactly, true on the largest scales. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

cosmological natural selection cosmological perturbation theory cosmological phase transition cosmological redshift cosmological religion cosmological scale