Following up on the post about Einstein’s early preference for a Steady State versus Big Bang cosmology, here’s a new story, also from Nature, describing a recently discovered draft written by Einstein outlining a Steady State theory:
“A manuscript that lay unnoticed by scientists for decades has revealed that Albert Einstein once dabbled with an alternative to what we now know as the Big Bang theory, proposing instead that the Universe expanded steadily and eternally. The recently uncovered work, written in 1931, is reminiscent of a theory championed by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle nearly 20 years later. Einstein soon abandoned the idea, but the manuscript reveals his continued hesitance to accept that the Universe was created during a single explosive event.”
UPDATE: John Farrell offers some good discussion about this find.
