While the Steady State theory was eventually falsified – our universe is expanding, and it most likely started from a big bang – it energized the entire field of cosmology, because it brought into sharp focus the questions that had to be addressed. In fact, currently fashionable models of the multiverse – the concept that our universe is but one of a huge ensemble of universes – are consistent with the idea that they are collectively in a kind of steady state.
这一思想非常漂亮：正如我们的宇宙是同质的（空间的每一点都是相同的）、各向同性的（所有方向看上去都一样），因此它在每一个时点都是相同的。尽管稳态理论最终被证伪了——我们的宇宙是扩张的，并且极有可能以大爆炸为起点——但它刺激了整个宇宙学，因为他把必须解决的问题拿到了聚光灯下。事实上，最新流行的多元宇宙论——我们的宇宙是多个宇宙的巨大合体——便与它们总体上处于一种稳态的观点相符。