
What Einstein Got Wrong
Cosmology and the Cosmological Constant
Educational · Jun 1, 2020 · 28 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
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S1, E5: Investigate what Einstein reportedly called his "biggest blunder": his insistence that the universe is static, despite the prediction of general relativity that space is either expanding or contracting. Explore why general relativity is inconsistent with a static universe, and chart astronomer Edwin Hubble's pioneering observations that prove we live in an expanding cosmos.
Educational · Jun 1, 2020 · 28 min