Every genius has faults. But the cosmological constant proposed by Albert Einstein in 1917 as a supplement to General Relativity and explaining why the universe is not headed for collapse may not be as big a slip as his pride.
For Einstein the universe must be stopped, stagnant, immobilized by a force that holds everything in place. But even in the face of fairly consistent evidence, he repeatedly refused to believe in the existence of an expanding universe. This could be your biggest mistake.
A brief history of gravity
For over 200 years, everything we think about the universe and gravity was based on the theory of Universal Gravity proposed by Isaac Newton in 1687.
According to him, if the Sun disappears, everything will lose its balance and we will be balls rolling aimlessly in space.
In 1905, however, this story took a different turn. Einstein proposed the theories of Special Relativity and General Relativity (1915). According to the first theory, there is nothing faster than light in the universe, and there is no absolute reference in space.
The second concerns a four-dimensional universe where time and space converge and celestial bodies, including light, are bent due to the influence of gravity. Creating a lot of buzz in the physics world, The theory was put to the test in 1919 during a solar eclipse in Sobral, Ceará. And Einstein was right.
Einstein’s mistake
Invented to explain a non-collapsed universe, the cosmological constant has been studied by several physicists and mathematicians who, by extending Einstein’s own calculations, arrived at the conclusion of an expanding universe.
However, Einstein, being a harsh critic of this hypothesis, refused to accept the news, saying that he was wrong in proposing such a force. Instead of stabilizing the universe, currently the cosmological constant explains the expansion of the cosmos based on the study of dark energy..
Albert Einstein’s mistake was to be proud of not accepting the possibility of a moving universe. Had Galileo been alive, he would certainly have called Einstein “Eppur si muove”.
Source: Tec Mundo

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