center of symmetry

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noun

Crystallography.

a point within a crystal through which any straight line extends to points on opposite surfaces of the crystal at equal distances.

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center of symmetry

"This means," he added, "that the Big Bang should generically look exactly like a Friedmann spacetime near the center of symmetry, but generically one should observe accelerations away from Friedmann far from the center."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

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