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Einstein-de Sitter Cosmological Model

With Willem de Sitter, proposes a spatially flat expanding cosmological model without a cosmological constant, providing a simple benchmark solution of general relativity.

Albert Einstein in a 1912 portrait
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Einstein-de Sitter Cosmological Model

1932 · Pasadena · United States of America · Astronomy

With Willem de Sitter, proposes a spatially flat expanding cosmological model without a cosmological constant, providing a simple benchmark solution of general relativity.