Slashdot Mirror
Einstein's Biggest Blunder That Wasn't
jose parinas writes "The genius of Albert Einstein, who added a "cosmological constant" to his equation for the expansion of the universe but later retracted it, may be vindicated by new research.
The enigmatic "dark energy" that drives the acceleration of the Universe behaves just like Einstein's famed cosmological constant, according to the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS). Their observations reveal that the dark energy behaves like Einstein's cosmological constant to a precision of 10%."
Dark energy, so evil makes the universe expand huh???
NO~, I read Slashdot because I think it's stupid.....
If he's so smart how come he's dead?
"I'm going to f***ing bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to f***ing kill Google"
That was really insightful. Thanks for sharing :)
Alright, Einstein's blunder is no longer his "comsmological constant"...
His blunder has merely changed to the premature retraction of his "cosmological constant."
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
The aliens gave him the theory -- including the cosmological constant. Unfortunately, there wasn't actually a justification for it. Thinking quickly, Einstein ad-libbed that it without it, the universe would be expanding, "and, uhh, we all know that's not true, right, fellas?", sacrificing the chance to be the first one to "predict" this. He copied the answer from the back of the book and got busted for not showing all the work. C'mon, who hasn't that happened to?
G.W. Bush is alive, what a genius!
You can't handle the truth.
In later years, studies will show that Einstein actually CREATED the universe in some kind of unconcious blunder, giving him the "Genius" over the universal equations we praise today.
What a fraud, and I would assume would be then, a god.
~--~
Do not mind the one with the crazy, for he is sane
Dude, lay off the grass! --- Didn't like Einstein totally die long before the Hubble was like, launched???
Bummer man!
Yet more "science" aiming to push baby jesus out of my fifteen childrens' school. This country was founded on gawd! Take your heathen "knowledge" to some other third-world country, you sick freaks!
IIRC his biggest blunder was discounting quantum physics and spending the last half of his life trying to come up with an alternative model that didn't require the universe to be probabilistic.
That's not a blunder, that's a difference of opinion.
D6 63 0D 70 89 81 BB 8E 7B 7C 5F 5D 54 EA AB 73
He's been dead for thirty years. Do you think he's still bitter?
With great power comes great fan noise.
Consider a spherical mass of uniform density.
Is this another approximation for a cow?
Consider a spherical cow of radius r and uniform mass density rho. If it has an angular acceleration of alpha, an initial angular velocity omega_0, and an initial angular displacement theta_0, at what velocity will the milk leave its udders at time t=t_1, if they are located at a position (r,0,0) at time t=0?
I hate that problem !
Isn't there a medical solution for these things?
Do astronomers have more of these than the rest of us?
Or do physicists and mathematicians also suffer from it?
Gads, even Einstein had the problem.
Einstein and Hoffa are chillin' on the dark side of the moon.
:)
They're just waiting for someone to come pick them up.
Pretty Pictures!
grammar nazi-ism.
You should have spelled it just 'nazism'.
My exception safety is -fno-exceptions.
It's tortoises all the way down, don't you know?
Peace and love, y'all