Cosmology. The Science of the Universe

By E. Harrison. 2002

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Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology (2006, background): “The ‘Cosmological Principle’ — the universe is necessarily spatially homogeneous and isotropic (Sec.4.2.2) is of this kind: a description of the way the initial data turned out, rather than a fundamental reason for why this should be so.”
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