The Importance of Cosmological Principles for Research in Cosmology

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Scientific Paper
Title The Importance of Cosmological Principles for Research in Cosmology
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Author(s) Konrad Rudnicki
Keywords Cosmology, Cosmological Principle
Published 1989
Journal Apeiron
Volume 1
Number 4
No. of pages 6
Pages 1-7

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Abstract

Any cosmological consideration must be based on one or more cosmological principles. Six of them are described namely: The Ancient Hindu, the Ancient Greek, the Genuine Copernican, the Generalized Copernican, the Perfect and the Anthropic Ones. Some cosmological principles have common properties, some are contradictory; some are logically independent, some dependent. Cosmological principles influence not only interpretation of results but they influence the results of cosmology as such. A consciousness of problems connected with cosmological principles is necessary when getting in touch with cosmology.