What is the present-day status of The Copernican Principle?
arXiv:gr-qc/0505066
Abstract
I point out that according to the Copernican principle our universe is not unique. The way to make sense out of this statement is for us to construct a gravitational instanton that will tunnel out of our vacuum into another, to form a universe other than our Hubble bubble.
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