Bonus: Damon Binder on Economic History and the Future of Physics
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Einstein's Theory of the Universe
Einstein believed the universe should be like static and unchanging. He postulated that there was this cosmological constant that would exactly cancel out this expanding factor. The problem was then when you realized after making this adjustment that it wasn't a stable universe. So Einstein later would call, at least there's an approximate saying, I'm not sure if it's actually true, but it called the cosmological Constant his greatest mistake.
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