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00:00Let me tell you how smart Einstein was.
00:01In one of his equations, he put in a term that he later regretted putting in,
00:05and he called it his greatest blunder.
00:06He looked at his equations, and his equations showed that the universe had to be either expanding or collapsing.
00:11No one had any idea that the universe, which is everything, would be doing anything.
00:15So he says, this can't be right. Let me put in this term.
00:17It's a legitimate mathematical term, but physically, what the hell are you doing, Albert?
00:20And he says, this term will help stabilize it from collapse.
00:24And it's a pressure force to push outward, and that'll stabilize it.
00:27Later on, Hubble discovered that, in fact, the universe was expanding, and he didn't need the term.
00:31Because he could have predicted that the universe should either be expanding or catch, but he didn't.
00:35He put in this term. He said it's his biggest blunder.
00:37You know what Einstein's actual biggest blunder is?
00:39Saying that that was his biggest blunder.
00:41Because, in fact, in 1998, we discovered a pressure in the universe pressing against gravity
00:47that is exactly the term that he put in.
00:49That's badass smart.
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