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mr_mitmyesterday at 1:00 PM1 replyview on HN

Why do you say "probably"? We can measure and quantify the inhomogeneities very precisely, and they're tiny. This isn't a matter of opinion or intuition.


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tigerlilyyesterday at 6:55 PM

Oh, sorry I was referring to the cosmological principle [1]. The wiki page is actually quite a good summary of the whole fiasco.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_principle