Showing posts with label cosmological constant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cosmological constant. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Einstein’s Biggest Blunder





In 1917, Albert Einstein inserted a term called the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity to force the equations to predict a stationary universe in keeping with physicists' thinking at the time. 

Today on Far Future Horizons we present two video features that explore Einstein's "biggest blunder".