cosmological principle

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cosmological
adjective
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/ˌkɒz.məˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌkɑːz.məˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
involving or relating to cosmology (= the study of the nature and origin of the ...
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principle
noun
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/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/us
/ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens ...
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Cosmologists agree that in accordance with observations of distant galaxies, a universe must be non-static if it follows thecosmologicalprinciple.
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Thecosmologicalprinciplecontains three implicit qualifications and two testable consequences.
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On top of that, the universe appears to be isotropic and homogeneous in accordance with thecosmologicalprinciple.
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These two conditions make up thecosmologicalprinciple.
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The two testable structural consequences of thecosmologicalprincipleare homogeneity and isotropy.
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Thecosmologicalprinciplestates that on large scales the universe is homogeneous and isotropic.
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The "cosmologicalprinciple" implies that at a sufficiently large scale, the universe is homogeneous; different places will appear similar to one another.
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A related implication of thecosmologicalprincipleis that the largest discrete structures in the universe are in mechanical equilibrium.
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In steady state views, new matter is continuously created as the universe expands, thus adhering to the perfectcosmologicalprinciple.
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Many important advances in astronomy and cosmology, and the formulation of new cosmological theories, have occurred through the resolution of apparent violations of thecosmologicalprinciple.
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As it is the only distribution that has this property, it is the only distribution which could satisfy thecosmologicalprincipleof no preferred reference frame.
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Variously known as background independence, thecosmologicalprinciple, the principle of universality, the principle of uniformity, or uniformitarianism, there "are" important philosophical assumptions that can not be derived from nature.
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Moreover, the majority of cosmologists take thecosmologicalprincipleas a given, which assumes that matter at the scale of billions of light years is distributed isotropically.
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There are many principles observed in physics, notably in cosmology which observes the mediocrity principle, the anthropic principle, the principle of relativity and thecosmologicalprinciple.
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