Einstein and the Big Bang (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 15:58 (3924 days ago)

He would have preferred a steady state, but finally came around. Fred Hoyle had the same ideas:-http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-s-lost-theory-uncovered-1.14767-"A manuscript that lay unnoticed by scientists for decades has revealed that Albert Einstein once dabbled with an alternative to what we now know as the Big Bang theory, proposing instead that the Universe expanded steadily and eternally. The recently uncovered work, written in 1931, is reminiscent of a theory championed by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle nearly 20 years later. Einstein soon abandoned the idea, but the manuscript reveals his continued hesitance to accept that the Universe was created during a single explosive event. -"Evidence for the Big Bang first emerged in the 1920s, when US astronomer Edwin Hubble and others discovered that distant galaxies are moving away and that space itself is expanding. This seemed to imply that, in the past, the contents of the observable Universe had been a very dense and hot 'primordial broth'."