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cosmological principle

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cosmological principle
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(Astronomy) Astronomy the theory that the universe is uniform, homogenous, and isotropic, and therefore appears the same from any position


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Cosmological principles have played a key role in the theory and practice of medicine throughout history, sometimes obscuring human understanding of more accurate models such as modern disease theory, but often leading the way in the spirit of scientific and medical inquisition.
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.
 
 
 
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