Meantime, Albert Einstein, without benefit of observation, concocted his general theory of relativity, which overthrew Newton and contained in its apparatus the idea of the expanding universe.

• 同时,阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦没有依靠天文观察就提出了广义相对论,推翻了牛顿理论,在其理论体系中也包含了宇宙膨胀观点。