The final stage of his argument came when Maupertuis set out to interpret his principle in cosmological terms.

However, the largest part comes from so-called dark energy, which accounts for the cosmological constant term.

Only over cosmologically large distances could the effect of the cosmological term become significant.

The cosmological constant term is assumed to be treated as dark energy and thus merged into the density and pressure terms.

This so-called cosmological term had a repulsive gravitational effect.

It was thus possible to balance the attraction of the matter with the repulsion of the cosmological term.

Einstein later called the cosmological term 'the greatest mistake of my life.'

Einstein himself considered the introduction of the cosmological term in his 1917 paper founding cosmology as a "blunder".

"If there is no quasi-static world," he said in 1922, "then away with the cosmological term."

All of these findings should be considered major shortcomings of the standard model, but only when the cosmological constant term is included.