When Einstein invented the cosmological constant in 1917, and promptly disowned it, he cannot have known that the concept would be bothering his successors more than 70 years later.
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Maddox, J. Einstein's much delayed little joke. Nature 337, 685 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/337685a0
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