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Universe, Contracting or Expanding
In the 1920s the physicists Alexander A. Friedmann (1888–1925) and George Lemaître (1894–1966) succeeded in describing the global dynamics of the universe by simplifying the field equations of the general theory of relativity with the help of symmetry assumptions. The equations ...
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