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The cosmological principle states that, on sufficiently large scales, the universe is statistically homogeneous and isotropic: no large region is fundamentally privileged and no direction is globally special.
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If matter is distributed approximately uniformly on very large scales, general relativity permits a simple family of expanding geometries characterized by a scale factor and spatial curvature.
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