Hermann Bondi

It was the simplest approach, as Aristotle had discovered, if one wishes to avoid a discussion of a creation event.

Indeed, the philosophical attraction of the notion that the universe on average is not only homogeneous and isotropic in space but also constant in time was so appealing that a school of English cosmologists, Hermann Bondi, Fred Hoyle, and Thomas Gold, would call it the perfect cosmological principle.

But for now, that about wraps everything up.

This is episode fifty-two, Cosmology, of Quantum Foam.