We... come to the conclusion... that the actual universe is neither the static nor the empty one. It differs so much from both of these that neither can be used as an appropriate grand scale model. We must thus look for other solutions of the general field-equations. On account of the expansion our solution must necessarily be a non-static one, and it must have a finite density. There is only one possible static solution possessing a finite density, viz. our old friend A, but of non-static solutions with finite density there exists a great variety.


Kosmos (1932)

Willem de Sitter Quotes

We... come to the conclusion... that the actual universe is neither the static nor the empty one. It differs so much from both of these that neither...

We... come to the conclusion... that the actual universe is neither the static nor the empty one. It differs so much from both of these that neither...

We... come to the conclusion... that the actual universe is neither the static nor the empty one. It differs so much from both of these that neither...

We... come to the conclusion... that the actual universe is neither the static nor the empty one. It differs so much from both of these that neither...