Posted on 02/07/2023 6:05:07 PM PST by marshmallow
CNA Newsroom, Feb 1, 2023 / 14:00 pm A Belgian television station has rediscovered a 20-minute video in which Father Georges Lemaitre, considered the father of the Big Bang theory, explains what the origin of the universe may have been like.
Lemaitre was a Belgian astrophysicist known for being the first academic to propose the theory of the expansion of the universe from a massive explosion of what he called a “primordial atom” or “cosmic egg.”
Until now, only photographs of Lemaitre were preserved, the most popular being the one where he appears alongside Albert Einstein.
However, the VRT television station recently found a video in which the father of the Big Bang explains his theory.
Kathleen Bertrem of VRT’s archives mentioned in late December 2022 that finding this historic material was like “looking for a needle in a haystack” due to the company misclassifying its extensive files.
Nevertheless, the television channel found among its archives the tape of an interview in French that producer Jerome Verhaeghe conducted with Lemaitre on Feb. 14, 1964, and broadcast then.
Lemaitre explains the origin of the universe
Lemaitre points out in the interview that the expansion of the universe was not accepted at first because it made the idea of a creation necessary.
In the video, the astrophysicist explains that “before the theory of the expansion of the universe, some 40 years ago [in the 1920s], we expected the universe to be static, because nothing changes.”
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The big bang theory...
Basically...
First there was nothing...
And then it exploded!
just ‘re-discovered’ or a deep-fake?
Well, according to the ACTUAL Big Bang theory (as opposed to your misunderstanding of it), there never actually was nothing, but rather a smaller more energetic initial state. And nothing actually exploded, but rather space itself expanded rapidly. But other than that, you pretty much nailed it.
The term “big bang” was coined by Fred Hoyle, who didn’t believe the universe had a beginning and meant the term as a pejorative.
It took decades for the community to cozy up to using what was meant to be a slam as the actual term for the theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle#Rejection_of_the_Big_Bang
Hoyle’s counter-theory doesn’t have room for either why the universe is expanding or why that expansion is accelerating.
So, then...there WAS just one man with a small mind who rallied many other small minds behind a theory, amassing evidence to support it while ignoring evidence which contradicted it.
Sounds a lot like Egyptology.
/s
And then it exploded!
From absolute nothingness; no space, no time; it came to be.
I believe in the Big “I Am” Theory.
Pretty much.
That’s their story...
They might even stick to it.
I always hated that show.
The theory has little to say about the Planck Epoch, the period up to 10^^(-43) seconds. General relativity does not work, quantum theory hasn’t revealed anything yet. Words like “where” and “when” do not apply. Nothingness is quite applicable.
Not quite . We just don’t know what preceded the Big Bang. One theory is that our whole Universe is the inside of a black hole. The beginning would be when that Black Hole formed from another Universe.
BANG !!!
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.....
Boom or Bang.
nice!
Interesting!
There is nothing quite like nothing. Even nothing isn’t.
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