Hundred Years of Einstein's Cosmological Constant

dc.contributor.author	Sivaram, C
dc.contributor.author	Arun, K
dc.contributor.author	Kiren, O. V
dc.contributor.author	Sivaram, C
dc.date.accessioned	2020-11-11T01:23:07Z
dc.date.available	2020-11-11T01:23:07Z
dc.date.issued	2018-06
dc.identifier.citation	Theoretical Physics, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 43-50	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2519-9633
dc.identifier.uri	http://prints.iiap.res.in/handle/2248/6859
dc.description	Open Access © Isaac Scientific Publishing Co.; https://doi.org/10.22606/tp.2018.32004	en_US
dc.description.abstract	It was little over a hundred years ago that Einstein introduced the ‘cosmological constant’ in his General Theory of Relativity in order to obtain a static universe, to conform to the philosophical view of the universe at that time. What Einstein subsequently dubbed as the ‘biggest blunder’ of his life (after Hubble’s discovery of the expanding universe) has come back in vogue in cosmology. Here we look at the evolution of the concept of the cosmological constant from its inception to it possibly making up close to about 70% of the energy density of the universe.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Isaac Scientific Publishing	en_US
dc.subject	General Theory of Relativity	en_US
dc.subject	Dark energy	en_US
dc.subject	Cosmological constant	en_US
dc.subject	Expanding universe	en_US
dc.subject	Cosmology	en_US
dc.title	Hundred Years of Einstein's Cosmological Constant	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US