Einstein’s “Greatest Blunder” May Be Breaking Cosmology

According to our best understanding, the universe is expanding – and is doing so at an accelerating rate. This is believed to be caused by something called the “cosmological constant”, which was first proposed by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity. In recent…

Dark energy revived Einstein’s discarded cosmological constant and reshaped the leading model of the universe. In 1917, Albert Einstein had recently completed his general theory of relativity, the framework that transformed how physics understands gravity. He soon applied those…