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been around for centuries, Albert modernized
it starting in 1917 with his paper “Cosmological
Considerations of the General Theory of
Relativity.” Not many people paid attention to
it at first, mostly because it wasn’t easy to find
outside of Germany until World War I ended.
However, more scientists took notice of it after
Albert won the Nobel Prize and reached the
status of an international celebrity.
One of the most important points Albert made
in the paper was that he believed the universe was
not of any fixed, permanent size, but rather that
it was continually expanding. Again, he was
challenging a very old and long-accepted idea—
and again, the academic community decided his
theory needed to be proven before
it could be accepted.
This was accomplished in
1929 by respected astronomer
Edwin Hubble. A dedicated
worker, Hubble used a newly
built telescope at the Mount
Wilson Observatory in
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