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Einstein Discovered Dark Energy, Says Historian of Science
- lutusp 14y agoNo. Einstein's reason for proposing a repulsive force (to balance an apparently static universe against gravitational collapse) had nothing to do with observation, wouldn't have produced the result he believed at the time (as any number of physics students will tell you), and was later abandoned by Einstein as "My greatest blunder." To give Einstein credit for dark energy is a perversion of logic. Einstein's cosmological constant was meant to stabilize the unstable universe his GR equations predicted, whereas dark energy destabilizes the dynamic but predictable universe modeled by the Big Bang theory.