Quantum Windbag
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Fallacious appeal to authority
Umm, what?
You asked me how I know what Hawking said, and I point out I know because he said it, and you claim that is an appeal to authority?
I guess I owe rdean an apology.
LOL! No, sorry, but any student of cosmology knows that Einstein's GR admits three possible solutions - expanding, contracting, or steady state. Just look up the FriedmannLemaîtreRobertsonWalker metric. [/quote]
Why? Did they prove that Einstein's math was wrong when he added the cosmological constant?
Didn't think so.
That's not entirely true. Alan Guth used the cosmological constant to successfully predict the distribution of the microwave background radiation. its a very useful theory for the early Universe. Problem it is doesn't jive with the more recent Universe unless it changes with time.
The fact that they have to add a fudge factor to make the equations work with the observed universe as it exists today contradicts my statement that they have to add a fudge factor to make the equations work with the observed universe how?