few years before Dirac formulated LNH. Milne was inspired not by large number coincidences but by a dislike of Einstein's general theory of relativity. For Milne, space was not a structured object but simply a system of reference in which relations such as this could accommodate Einstein's conclusions:
:where M_U is the mass of the universe and t is the age of the universe. According to this relation, G increases over time.

Dirac's interpretation of the large number coincidences