TIL that the Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest
TIL that the Big Bang Theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest
Georges Lemaître Belgian astronomer and cosmologist who formulated the modern big-bang theory, which holds that the universe began in a cataclysmic explosion of a small, primeval “super-atom.” A civil engineer, Lemaître served as an artillery officer in the Belgian Army during World War I. After
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@i_have_no_enemies
And he received push back from the science community who thought he was trying to shoe horn religion into science.
You gotta be careful with that scientific confidence thing.there's currently doubt over the existence of any singularity. that would include the big bang.
@metaStatic @i_have_no_enemies
LeMaitre only took it as far as the universe expanding. He just reversed the expansion to conceive the starting point which was disparaged as the big bang. I'm not sure he had the tools or ability to work out singularities. I may be wrong though.
Einstein made the mistake of inventing the cosmological constant to make the universe a steady state against the evidence he was seeing.
Atheists denying science because it sounds religious is extremely common.
Source?
Jesus told me