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Old 14-04-2010, 11:31 AM
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Isotropy is based on the entire visible Universe. The structures you refer to represent distances that are a small percentage of the size of the visible Universe. The smaller the distance the less the Universe appears to be isotropic.


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Steven
The edge of the observable Universe is currently 46.5 billion light years away (or edge diameter 93 billion light years ). The Sloan Great Wall is measured as 1.37 billion light years in length.
This is roughly 1.5% of the edge diameter. I would consider this as a fairly significant percentage.

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