Science, Maths & Technology
Understanding science: what we cannot know
...careful and take the time into account. The ionised gas that we now see as the CMBR will have since condensed into atoms, stars and galaxies. Cosmologists have long been guided by what is called the ‘cosmological principle’. This states that on the very largest scales the universe is generally ‘homogeneous’ (all places are alike) and ‘isotropic’ (all...