  It is commonly known that the steady-state model of the universe was proposed
and championed in a series of influential papers around mid-twenty century by
Fred Hoyle, Hermann Bondi, and Thomas Gold. In contrast it is little known
that, many years before, Albert Einstein briefly explored the same idea; that
is of a 'dynamic steady state' universe. In 1931 during his first visit to
Caltech, Einstein tried to develop a model where the universe expanded and
where matter was supposed to be continuously created. This latter process was
proposed by him to keep the matter density of the universe constant. However,
Einstein shortly abandoned the idea. The whole event has already been described
and analyzed by C. O'Raifeartaigh and colleagues in 2014. It is the purpose of
this brief note to point out what might have prompted Einstein to consider a
continuous creation of matter and the prevailing circumstances at that time
that drove Einstein's intent.
