| Eddington-Lemaitre universe | is a kind of cosmology theory |  |
| has definition A cosmological model in which the cosmological constant plays a crucial role by allowing an initial phase that is identical to the Einstein static universe. After an arbitrarily long time, the universe begins to expand. The difficulty with this model is that the initiation of galaxy formation may actually cause a collapse rather than initiate an expansion of the universe. | |
| cosmology theory | has domain cosmology | |
| theory | has validity correct or incorrect with caveats | |
| has author or reasearch group | |
| has date or a range of dates for which the theory was active | |
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