Jan 14, 2015 05:48 AM
http://plus.maths.org/content/steady-on-Einstein
EXCERPT: [...] Last year we went along to a conference that brought together cosmologists and philosophers to discuss some of the big questions in cosmology. Physicist Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, from the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, told us about his recent and unexpected discovery of an unpublished paper by Einstein in the digital archive. The paper contained a model of the Universe that was dramatically different from any of the others that Einstein was known to have studied. And although it wasn't the model that Einstein, or the rest of the scientific community, eventually settled on, the discovery is important as it sheds light on how Einstein's thinking about the Universe changed, as he was dealing with some of the big questions in cosmology at the time....
EXCERPT: [...] Last year we went along to a conference that brought together cosmologists and philosophers to discuss some of the big questions in cosmology. Physicist Cormac O'Raifeartaigh, from the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland, told us about his recent and unexpected discovery of an unpublished paper by Einstein in the digital archive. The paper contained a model of the Universe that was dramatically different from any of the others that Einstein was known to have studied. And although it wasn't the model that Einstein, or the rest of the scientific community, eventually settled on, the discovery is important as it sheds light on how Einstein's thinking about the Universe changed, as he was dealing with some of the big questions in cosmology at the time....