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Re:The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing p... by mhh__ on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:05AM (#25998766)
Think of the accolades if he'd correctly predicted expansion
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Re:The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing p... by kreeben on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @04:23AM (#25998881)
To this day we would still be talking about him.
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Re:The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing p... by jfengel on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @03:28PM (#26018688)
The problem is that, given relativity, he could have equally predicted collapse. There was really no reason to think it would go either way. If he'd said "the universe therefore must be expanding" he'd have been unjustified.
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