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Big Bang in a Rain-Lashed Tent

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I'm in a Good Mood, Corinne. You Are Doing Science Everyday, Everyone Else.

Einstein himself didn't actually get them right. He was convinced, as were most other scientists at the time in 1915, that the universe was static. So he added in this extra variable to essentially force the universe to be static. And now astronomers and cosmologists use the cosmological constant to describe the expansion of the universe.

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