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Einstein's Biggest Blunder That Wasn't

Posted by samzenpus on from the he-told-you-so dept.

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%."

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  1. Ohh yeah... by Elitist_Phoenix · · Score: 5, Funny

    If he's so smart how come he's dead?

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    1. Re:Ohh yeah... by screwballicus · · Score: 5, Funny

      It turns out that god does throw dice. And Albert failed his saving throw. Such is life.

  2. I contend the blunder stands! by cffrost · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alright, Einstein's blunder is no longer his "comsmological constant"...

    His blunder has merely changed to the premature retraction of his "cosmological constant."

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  3. Imagine? by dorkygeek · · Score: 4, Funny
    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Einsteins.

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  4. Studies Show... by ThndrShk2k · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:Hardly Einstein's biggest blunder... by servognome · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Come back Einstein by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Einstein and Hoffa are chillin' on the dark side of the moon.

    They're just waiting for someone to come pick them up. :)

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  7. Re:I can't take it... (grammar nazi alert) by 21mhz · · Score: 5, Funny

    grammar nazi-ism.

    You should have spelled it just 'nazism'.

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  8. Re:Cosmological pressure by whig · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's tortoises all the way down, don't you know?

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