Tuesday, October 2, 2018

general relativity - Why didn't Newton have a cosmological constant


Einstein initially added the Cosmological Constant because (if I get this right) it seemed to him that the universe should be static. I agree that back then this would have been an obvious assumption. I'm curious now, before Hubble, where there any opinions/debates about whether the universe would be expanding or contracting?




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