The Day Without Yesterday
by John Farrell · first published 1742
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…regard to the cosmological constant, Einstein dropped it but Lemaitre didn't. Lemaitre argued in the early 1930's that the rate of expansion of the universe was accelerating. http://www.amazon.com/The-Day-Without-Yesterday-Cosmology/dp... "Lemaître was then invited to London in order to take part in a meeting of the British Association on the relation between the physical Universe and spirituality. There he proposed that…
on “The Disappearing Universe” ↗…comment is what keeps me coming back to Hacker News. I didn't know that Lemaître had proposed that the expansion was accelerating -- actually, I didn't know much about Lemaître at all, truth be told. ( The Day Without Yesterday just went on my reading list -- thanks!). In any case, I guess Stapledon must have been working off of Lemaître's model, rather than cooking up something unique. Still, like you, I do like to imagine…
on “The Disappearing Universe” ↗