Last year, a team of Irish scientists at WIT discovered an unpublished manuscript by Einstein in which he attempted to construct a “steady-state” model of the universe. Dr Cormac O’Raifeartaigh describes the excitement of finding this previously unknown work in the most recent edition of Physics World.
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One afternoon in the summer of 2013, I was sitting in my office thinking about going for a swim. It was a beautiful day and I was becoming weary of the job in hand. That job consisted of analysing a paper called “On the cosmological problem of the general theory of relativity”, published by Albert Einstein in April 1931 (Sitzungsberichte der König. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 235). I had found some numerical anomalies in Einstein’s paper, and was hoping that a study of his original manuscript might shed some light on the matter. Many such documents can nowadays be viewed on the Einstein Archives Online maintained by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and sure enough, there it was in plain view.
Or was it? The title and the opening paragraphs of Einstein’s manuscript seemed familiar, but as I read on, it became more and more clear that, whatever this document was, it was not a draft of Einstein’s Sitzungsberichte paper of 1931.
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