http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.01651
We recently reported the discovery of an unpublished manuscript by Albert Einstein in which he attempted a ‘steady-state’ model of the universe, i.e., a cosmic model in which the expanding universe remains essentially unchanged due to a continuous formation of matter from empty space. The manuscript was apparently written in early 1931, many years before the steady-state models of Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi and Thomas Gold. We compare Einstein’s steady-state cosmology with that of Hoyle, Bondi and Gold and consider the reasons Einstein abandoned his model. The relevance of steady-state models for today’s cosmology is briefly reviewed.
C. ORaifeartaigh and S. Mitton
Fri, 5 Jun 15
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Comments: To be published in the ‘Proceedings of the 2014 Institute of Physics International Conference on the History of Physics’, Cambridge University Press. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1504.02873, arXiv:1402.0132
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