Physics A-Level
Cosmological principle
What Cosmological principle means in Physics A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Cosmological principle
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On sufficiently large scales, the universe is homogeneous and isotropic, and the laws of physics are universal.
Topics that use Cosmological principle
- Cosmology (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Age of the universe
- Astronomical distance units
- Baseline
- Big Bang nucleosynthesis
- Big Bang theory
- Cosmic microwave background
- Cosmic microwave background radiation
- Cosmological redshift
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