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The Cosmological Constant Lambda, a concept introduced by Einstein in 1917, has been with us ever since in different variants and incarnations, including the broader concept of Dark Energy. Current observations are consistent with a value…

Popular Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Ofer Lahav

Between 1905 and 1907, Einstein first tried to extend the special theory of relativity in such a way so as to explain gravitational phenomena. This was the most natural and simplest path to be taken. These investigations did not fit in with…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 Galina Weinstein

Since the emergence in the late 1960s of the standard hot big-bang theory, cosmology has been dominated by finite-age models. However, the rival view that the universe has existed for an indefinite time has continued to be defended by a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 Helge Kragh

Recently, zero-point length cosmology has shown some positive insights into some non-singular aspects of the early Universe. In addition, topological defects are known to play a significant role by its presence as a part of the total energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-21 Kalyan Bhuyan , Mrinnoy M. Gohain

We investigate whether or not an Einstein Static universe is a solution to the cosmological equations in $f(R)$ gravity. It is found that only one class of $f(R)$ theories admits an Einstein Static model, and that this class is neutrally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Rituparno Goswami , Naureen Goheer , Peter K. S. Dunsby

Closed, singularity-free, inflationary cosmological models have recently been studied in the context of general relativity. Despite their appeal, these so called emergent models suffer from a number of limitations. These include the fact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David J. Mulryne , Reza Tavakol , James E. Lidsey , George F. R. Ellis

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the existence of static stable Einstein universe using inhomogeneous linear perturbations in the context of $f(R,T)$ gravity ($R$ and $T$ denote the scalar curvature and trace of the stress-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 M. Sharif , Arfa Waseem

This is a brief look at how Einstein explored formal symmetries between quantized matter and quantized radiation between 1903 and 1925. Specifically he employed thermodynamic comparisons between the ideal molecular gas and the photon gas.…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-12-08 Paul A. Klevgard

The Einstein static (ES) universe has played a major role in various emergent scenarios recently proposed in order to cure the problem of initial singularity of the standard model of cosmology. In the herein model, we study the existence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-23 Hamid Shabani , Amir Hadi Ziaie

An attempt is made to explain the spiral structure of spiral galaxies through a possible rotation of the Universe. To this end, we write down a possible form of the metric, and we calculate the necessary quantities (Rik, Tik, ...) in order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-27 Evangelos Chaliasos

Einstein's 1932 efforts of persuasion to renounce the cosmological constant and his possible influence on Robertson.

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Galina Weinstein

We are at a specific period of modern cosmology, during which the large increase of the amount of data leads to the idea that the determination of cosmological parameters has been achieved with a rather good precision. There is a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 A. Blanchard

The stability of the Einstein static universe against the homogeneous scalar perturbations in $f(T)$ gravity is analyzed. Both the spatial closed and open universes are considered. We find that the stable Einstein static solutions exist in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-05 Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

We consider the existence and stability of the Einstein static universe under the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) effects. We show that this solution in the presence of perfect fluid with a minimal length is cyclically stable around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-25 K. Atazadeh , F. Darabi

Even if Einstein brought major contributions as a founder of quantum mechanics, he remained deeply unsatisfied with the bases of this structure he knew to be so efficient for physics. His critics are often known through his numerous…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Roussel

We investigate a class of cosmological solutions of Einstein's field equations in higher dimensions with a cosmological constant and an ideal fluid matter distribution as a source. We discuss the dynamical evolution of the universe subject…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-15 Ozgur Akarsu , Tekin Dereli

We analyze Hubble's approach to cosmology. In 1929 he accepted a finite expanding universe in order to explain the redshifts of distant galaxies. Later on he turned to an infinite stationary universe due to observational constraints. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 A. K. T. Assis , M. C. D. Neves , D. S. L. Soares

In 1924, Einstein received a short manuscript in the mail from the Indian physicist S.N. Bose. He quickly translated Bose's manuscript to German and submitted it to Zeitschrift f\"ur Physik. Within a few weeks, Einstein presented his own…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Masud Mansuripur

It is a little known fact that while he was developing his theory of general relativity, Einstein's initial idea was a variable speed of light theory. Indeed space-time curvature can be mimicked by a speed of light $c(r)$ that depends on…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Alexander Unzicker , Jan Preuss

Einstein's first mention of the uniformly rotating disk in print was in 1912, in his paper dealing with the static gravitational fields. After the 1912 paper, the rotating disk problem occurred in Einstein's writings only in a 1916 review…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Galina Weinstein