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cosmological principle [¦käz·mə¦läj·ə·kəl ′prin·sə·pəl] (astronomy) The assumption made in most theories of cosmology that the universe is homogeneous on a large scale. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As Barrow says in much greater detail in his book with Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford University Press), galactic hydrogen and helium had to have billions of years to condense into galaxies of stars. Chua's demonstration of Vincenzo Galilei's ambivalence toward the rationalization of music that Galilei himself had advocated through "correction" of the Pythagorean tuning ratios, which in antiquity where taken as cosmological principles. The Cosmological Principle is taking a beating these days. |
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