Einsteins doubted his big bang theory

A scientist from the Institute of Technology in Waterford (Ireland) found a paper by Einstein that no one has ever seen before.

In this theory of the Big Bang and relativity Einstein was working on an alternative model of a stationary universe.

In 1948 a similar theory was introduced by Hoyle, Bondi and Gold. The scientists claimed that as galaxies get farther from each other and the universe expands, new matter forms in the freed spaces. Stars and galaxies are built in the freed space trough the process of forming more complicated element from elementary particles, which appear spontaneously.

Until the end of the sixties this idea was quite popular with most scientists until relict radiation - the main confirmation of the Big Bang theory - was discovered.

Physicist Cormac O'Raifeartaigh was sifting trough Einstein's papers that were exposed to the public in Jerusalem (you can find them here). His attention was drawn by one document, written in german which was thought to be a first draft of another of Einstein's works.