• DOI:10.1140/EPJH/E2013-40037-6
Corpus ID: 122011477

Einstein’s conversion from his static to an expanding universe

@article{Nussbaumer2014EinsteinsCF,
  title={Einstein’s conversion from his static to an expanding universe},
  author={H. Nussbaumer},
  journal={The European Physical Journal H},
  year={2014},
  volume={39},
  pages={37-62}
}

H. Nussbaumer

Published 2014

Physics

The European Physical Journal H

Abstract In 1917 Einstein initiated modern cosmology by postulating, based on general relativity, a homogenous, static, spatially curved universe. To counteract gravitational contraction he introduced the cosmological constant. In 1922 Alexander Friedman showed that Albert Einstein’s fundamental equations also allow dynamical worlds, and in 1927 Georges Lemaître, backed by observational evidence, concluded that our universe was expanding. Einstein impetuously rejected Friedman’s as well as Lema… CONTINUE READING

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