"In 1932, Einstein and de Sitter, in a joint memoir, argued that the original objections of 1917 to a world model of finite density in Euclidean space no longer applied if space could be regarded as expanding. ...Einstein and de Sitter therefore constructed a homogeneous world-model of finite density, subject to the field equations of General Relativity in expanding Euclidean space. They found... their model predicted a smoothed-out density of... 4 x 10-28 grammes per cubic centimetre. Although... "perhaps on the high side... we must conclude... it is possible to represent the facts without assuming a curvature of three-dimensional space.""
Willem de Sitter

January 1, 1970