On the list of tales we like to tell about Albert Einstein, the story of his "biggest blunder" is near the top. It begins with a problem that was bugging Einstein: How could his theory of general relativity be true and, yet, the universe stable? If his theory was right, the universe would have collapsed — it could not possibly remain fixed, as physicists at the time believed it was.
To make his equations work, Einstein introduced an additional term into them in 1917, expressed by the Greek letter lambda (ƛ) — the "cosmological constant." The new term represented a repulsive force that would counter gravity's attraction, leaving the universe intact. Read more...
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