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Georges Lemaître
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:35:07 -0700 (PDT), Double-A
wrote: On Oct 16, 12:32*am, Painius wrote: From Wikipedia... "Georges Henri Joseph douard Lema tre (17 July 1894 20 June 1966) was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). *He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. Yes, Hubble would have nothing to do with such nonsense! Maybe not at first - but then, when he did come around and embrace the proposal, Hubble gave it scientific credibility. He looked out and saw faraway galaxies that seemed to be rushing away from us at tremendous speeds. He noted that the farther away those galaxies were from us, the faster away from us they appeared to go. So he interpreted his observations of those faraway galaxies to mean that the Universe indeed *must* be expanding. And it was never questioned that those faraway galaxies' behaviors had taken place billions of years ago, that there was no way of telling what those galaxies were doing right now, that it was the height of human hubris to glean from those observations that the Universe is expanding NOW. Astronomers don't have any trouble with the thought that we see our own star, the Sun, as it was about eight minutes ago, because the Sun is about 8 light minutes away. They have no problem with the fact that if the star Sirius were to blow up today, we wouldn't know about it until about 8.6 years from now, because Sirius is 8.6 light years away. So why do they have so much trouble with the thought that if a galaxy is racing away from us, that may have been what it WAS doing billions of years ago? How can they take that observation and conclude that the Universe is expanding NOW??? *He was also the first to derive what is now known as the Hubble's law and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article. *Lema tre also proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'. Dubbed "Big Bang" by Fred Hoyle in ridicule of the theory! *As he was a secular priest, he was called Abb , then, after being made a canon, Monseigneur." So this Jesuit priest not only proposed what became the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, he ALSO was the first to give us the theory that the Universe is expanding! He has made fools of us all. *LMBO ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre -- Indelibly yours, Paine @ http://astronomy.painellsworth.net/ "A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping." |
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