The SciencesFebruary 21, 2017
Einstein's Greatest Blunder?
He abandoned the idea of a static, nonexpanding universe in 1929—but some physicists are beginning to reconsider it
Stories by Cormac O'Raifeartaigh
Cormac O'Raifeartaigh lectures at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland and is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. He and his colleagues have submitted a review of Einstein's 1917 model to the European Physical Journal (H); a preprint can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07261