The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times, Issue #22, September 2014 | Page 11

A Point Of Singularity
By Ahmad al Hassan (a.s)

May the peace, mercy and
blessings of Allah be upon you.

I ask Allah for you to be well
and in good health.

I will be posting some topics
from The Atheism Delusion on
this page. It will be beneficial,
God willing.

The Friedmann Models:
General relativity predicts a
non-static universe. Einstein
was trying to avoid this issue by
adding the cosmological
constant to his equation. So
along with many physicists at
the time, Einstein used to
believe that the universe was
static and steady. A static and
steady universe must collapse

upon itself if there is no force or
energy to counteract the
attraction of matter and the
cosmological energy.
However, Russian physicist
Alexander Friedmann resolved
this issue in a different way.
Instead of adding the
cosmological constant to the
equation, he found a solution:
an unsteady model of the
universe that concurs with
general relativity. Einstein
eventually embraced the
Friedmann solution and
admitted that he was wrong to
add the cosmological constant
and assume that the universe
was static. However, it will be
mentioned that later on dark
energy was discovered, which
works against gravity, meaning