The Steady State theory was what Karl Popper would call a good scientific theory: it made definite predictions, which could be tested by observation,… - Stephen Hawking

It appeared that each observer must have his own measure of time, as recorded by a clock carried with him, and that identical clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree.

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Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.