Science News, January 5th, 1991
Return of the cosmological constant
When Albert Einstein wrote down the equations for his theory of general relativity more than 70 years ago, he felt compelled to add a mathematica term representing an unknown, repulsive force to counter the gravitational attraction of mass. The introduction of this "cosmological constant" gave Einstein a way to reconcile his theory with the then-current belief that the universe is neither expanding nor contracting. However, the subsequent discovery that the universe actually is expanding led cosmologists to abandon the cosmological constant. Einstein hims...
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