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Joel Kontinen
Some
scientists may be in for a surprise. A recent survey has said that the universe in surprising
lumpy.
Assumptions
that physicists have made about the universe for over a century may be about to be
overturned. Evidence is emerging that it is far lumpier than we had thought – a
finding that could solve some of today’s most puzzling cosmological mysteries.
When
modelling the universe, cosmologists can’t describe every single galaxy, so
they make simplifications. Typically, they assume that the universe on the
largest scales is homogeneous and isotropic, meaning that it is roughly the
same no matter where you look.
Our universe may look surprising lumpy, but that is the way God made it, For example, our solar system is very different
from other solar systems.
Matt von Hippel 2026 100-year-old assumption about the universe may soon be overturned | New Scientist 27 April
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