Talk:Distance measures (cosmology)

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[edit] Page creation rationale

I made this page because information about various "distance measures in cosmology" seems to be scattered about Wikipedia. Standard textbooks often devote a chapter to the idea of distance measures and then subsections to each of the various kinds, so why not Wikipedia too?

Also, in looking around the articles, the articles on some distanc measures define other distance measures or talk about the relation between them, etc. There were also suggestions on some of the pages that a meta-distance measure page be created.

This page might be a useful introduction to what distance measures are used for, and a good place to describe how they are related to each other. For details we can just refer to the individual pages on each measure. Wesino 09:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge from comoving distance

I noticed that the whole comoving distance article was tagged with a "merge" into Distance measures (cosmology). In my opinion this might be a bit much -- certainly comoving distance is important enough to have its own page? I think that the section regarding comparison with other distance measures on the comoving distance page, though, should go into this page. Any other opinions? Wesino 00:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

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