Obtaining the spacetime metric from cosmological observations

Includes bibliographical references. === The Copernican principle asserts homogeneity on very large scales, however, this scale is still not well defined; and in reality homogeneity is assumed. Recent galaxy redshift surveys have brought in a large amount of cosmological data out to redshift 0.3 or...

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Main Author: Lu, Hui-Ching
Other Authors: Hellaby, Charles
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4906