“New observations by Hubble and Humason [astronomers at Mt. Wilson] concerning the red shift of light in distant nebulae” establish that “the general structure of the universe is not static.”29 He also stated in another New York Times interview on February 12: “The red shift of the distant nebulae have smashed my old construction like a hammer blow.”30 Later Einstein said that his postulation of an arbitrary value for the cosmological constant—his cosmic fudge factor—was “the greatest blunder” of his life. Indeed, by seeking to preserve a static universe, Einstein inadvertently concealed an
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