� Dougal Benet 2008 on behalf of the author of The Tome of Seus
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In the course of writing his book: Relativity, The Special and General Theory, Einstein considered the concept of an expanding universe, as hypothesised by the Russian mathematician Friedman and supported by the research of the astronomer Hubble. However, Einstein went on to dismiss the theory because, based on a single measurement made by Hubble, he calculated that the �Big Bang� occurred only 10 to the power of 9 years ago, which is far too short a time. What Einstein failed to consider was the simple possibility that the rate of expansion might not be constant. Had he used two measurements, separated by a gap of several years, he would have arrived at an entirely different conclusion. |