The Death Of The Cosmological Constant: Why Did Einstein Accept An Expanding Universe?
Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 11:50
in Astronomy & Space
How smart do you have to be to convince Albert Einstein to change his mind? Pretty smart. He never invoked 'the science is settled' or ridiculed the political party of physicists who insisted the universe was expanding. It was static until someone proved otherwise. Eventually they did, but it was not the urban legend that claimed in 1931 American astronomer Edwin Hubble showed Einstein his observations of redshift in the light emitted by far away nebulae - what we call galaxies now. The tipping point was instead a tortuous thought process following many encounters with some of the most influential astrophysicists of his generation. Writing in read more