Timeline for Cosmological constant doubts
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| Apr 18, 2014 at 17:17 | vote | accept | Sabbir Vadharia | ||
| Apr 18, 2014 at 9:53 | comment | added | Selene Routley | It may also be worth mentioning that Einstein's "solution" to make the universe static would not be stable in any case, Hubble expansion or not, i.e. although equilibrium can be achieved, any small "bump" in the matter distribution would reinforce itself in positive feedback. So it's likely that $\Lambda$ would not have survived long as an "explanation" for a static universe even if Hubble's discovery had not been made. | |
| Apr 17, 2014 at 15:47 | comment | added | magma | +1 The OP is not a physicist (see profile) and he mentions a non technical book (Universe in a nutshell). So this is by far the clearest and probably most satisfying answer to his question. | |
| Apr 17, 2014 at 1:25 | history | answered | user33941 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |