Willem de Sitter Quote

Observations give us two data, viz. the rate of expansion and the average density, and there are three unknowns: the value of λ, the sign of the curvature, and the scale of the figure, i. e. the units of R and of the time. The problem is indeterminate.


Kosmos (1932)


Observations give us two data, viz. the rate of expansion and the average density, and there are three unknowns: the value of λ, the sign of the...

Observations give us two data, viz. the rate of expansion and the average density, and there are three unknowns: the value of λ, the sign of the...

Observations give us two data, viz. the rate of expansion and the average density, and there are three unknowns: the value of λ, the sign of the...

Observations give us two data, viz. the rate of expansion and the average density, and there are three unknowns: the value of λ, the sign of the...