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Murray McDowall wrote:

>I got the idea recently that he (Einstein) actually was onto something 
>with this --
>the cosmological constant. I vaguely remember hearing something on a radio
>science program to the effect that he should not have recanted.
>
>I have forgotten the gist of the matter but suspect that it was to do with:
>a) dark matter
>b) the expanding universe
>c) all of the above
>
>Perhaps someone else knows the details ...

This is about the nicest link I have. It's to a one-paragraph summary of 
Einstein and the cosmological constant.
The person who wrote it (Eli Michael) says, very nicely:
"His (i.e. Einstein's) error serves as an lesson to all thinkers, that we
should never close our minds to new possibilities, even if the thought of 
the day is that they are impossible"

Eli Michael finishes by saying, also very nicely:
"The fact that the cosmological constant is still debated today, almost a 
century after it was introduced by Einstein ... makes one think that it was 
probably not Einstein's biggest blunder, but perhaps his greatest legacy".

http://super.colorado.edu/~michaele/blund.html

The rest of his site is well worth checking out.

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