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The Big Bang and the Misconceptions Surrounding it – The Great Courses Daily News
Fred Hoyle did not agree with Lemaître’s idea of creation and it was during a radio broadcast that he came up with the term “the big bang.”
The timeline of metric expansion of space, where space, including hypothetical non-observable portions of the universe, is represented at each time by the circular sections. (Image: NASA/WMAP Science Team/Public domain)
The theory was not called the big bang originally. Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître first suggested this theory in the year 1931. He named it the hypothesis of the primeval atom or the cosmic egg. He proposed that it was only in a tiny volume that the whole matter of…
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