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In relativistic cosmology, Weyl's postulate stipulates that in the Friedmann model of the universe (a fluid cosmological model), the wordlines of fluid particles (modeling galaxies) should be hypersurface orthogonal. Meaning, they should form a 3-bundle of non-intersecting geodesics orthogonal to a series of spacelike hypersurfaces (hyperslices).[1]
Sometimes, the additional hypothesis is added that the world lines form timelike geodesics.
- ^ Peebles, Jim (1971). Physical Cosmology. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691646961.