so happily, from Einstein’s perspective, when he studied this equation he found something unexpected and, to him, unpalatable. The prevailing scientific and philosophical stance was not only that on the largest of scales the universe was uniform, but that it was also unchanging. Much like the rapid molecular motions in your tea average out to a liquid whose appearance is static, astronomical motion such as the planets orbiting the sun and the sun moving around the galaxy would average out to an overall unchanging cosmos. Einstein, who adhered to this cosmic perspective, found to his dismay
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