Dr. Stephen Meyer

And that suggested a creation event.

And scientists, a lot of them were disturbed by this because it kind of pointed back to— Yeah, one guy with really bad hair who failed to match his socks in particular did not like this, you know, Albert Einstein.

And he had this awesome new theory of gravity, and it's been borne out in so many tests.

It's called general relativity.

And the idea of general relativity is that massive bodies—

in some strange but literal way, curve the space around them, such that if you pass light by them, you'll see the light take a curved trajectory.

But Einstein realized that if his idea about gravity was true, if massive bodies are literally curving space, then

If that was the only force at work in the universe, in the vast cosmos, then we should be in a black hole.

Every massive body would congeal the space around it, and every other massive body would do the same, and eventually that space would get drawn in, and everything would get drawn into one big glump, and there should be no empty space in the universe.

Right.

But he realized we don't live in a universe like that.

We live in a universe where there's empty space.

So there must be some sort of anti-gravity force, some outward pushing force that's counteracting the inward pull of gravity.

And he called that the cosmological constant, the constantly pushing outward force that's responsible for the growth of the cosmos.

But then as he began thinking about that, he realized –

That implies a dynamic universe, one that's expanding outward, which again implies expanding outward from what?

From some kind of a beginning point.

He did not like this idea at all initially, and it kind of violated a deep metaphysical prejudice he had that the universe must be eternal and self-existent and static.

So what he did is he fiddled with his own equations arbitrarily.

He just set a value for that cosmological constant, which was precisely opposite the value of the inward pull of gravity, so that he could depict the two forces as being perfectly balanced and the universe as being static and having neither beginning nor end.