Historians Rediscover Einstein's Forgotten Model of the Universe 35
KentuckyFC writes In 1931, after a 3- month visit to the U.S., Einstein penned a little known paper that attempted to show how his theory of general relativity could account for some of the latest scientific evidence. In particular, Einstein had met Edwin Hubble during his trip and so was aware of the latter's data indicating that the universe must be expanding. The resulting model is of a universe that expands and then contracts with a singularity at each end. In other words, Einstein was studying a universe that starts with a big bang and ends in a big crunch. What's extraordinary about the paper is that Einstein misspells Hubble's name throughout and makes a number of numerical errors in his calculations. That's probably because he wrote the paper in only 4 days, say the historians who have translated it into English for the time. This model was ultimately superseded by the Einstein-de Sitter model published the following year which improves on this in various ways and has since become the workhorse of modern cosmology.
Hey, let's judge Einstein by Slashdot standards! (Score:5, Funny)
He misspelled the guy's name several times? Then he's an idiot, and any point he's trying to make is worthless.
Re:Hey, let's judge Einstein by Slashdot standards (Score:1, Funny)
You're worthless! You're all worthless! Only I have any worth around here! My ego is the biggest! I know it's true because I said so!