Einstein’s Lost Theorem, Revealed

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A once-hidden Einstein manuscript is rattling the scientific community.

While it’s practically just a scrap in the tome of Einstein’s calculations, the paper shows that Einstein may have supported the idea of a steady-state universe—or at least hoped that it could be true. Championed by astrophysicist Fred Hoyle in the latter part of the 20th century, the steady-state theory is the skeptic’s response to the Big Bang theory. It predicts that the universe is eternally expanding and adding new matter to occupy the new space.

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