Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Starmaker Newsgroups: sci.physics.relativity Subject: Re: Albert Einstein's overconfidence. Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 03:33:16 -0700 Organization: The Starmaker Organization Lines: 19 Message-ID: <62F77DEC.7061@ix.netcom.com> References: <62F2A258.52B5@ix.netcom.com> <62F30213.49F@ix.netcom.com> <62F75FE3.6B6C@ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: starmaker@ix.netcom.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="d531d0ff6613bacc94fa7a781fdb33eb"; logging-data="2755440"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/PSqS3r8XZZsEwcfNSWl641R0FNkI+u6Y=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jz4NRxnZtxsDlxy3jpraCfQqQnc= X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; U) X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 220812-4, 08/12/2022), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com sci.physics.relativity:589881 Paul Alsing wrote: > > On Friday, August 12, 2022 at 1:23:15 PM UTC-7, The Starmaker wrote: > > > ... Georges Lemaitre (the guy who invented the big bang)... > > Actually, Lemaitre proposed the theory of an expanding universe in about 1927 to explain the redshift of external galaxies, and he called his theory the "hypothesis of the primeval atom". It was not until 1949 that the phrase "Big Bang" was coined by Fred Hoyle, who proposed his own Steady State theory of the universe, and he considered it to be a pejorative comment... but Hoyle eventually abandoned his theory for Lamaitre's, but the name Big Bang stuck... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Big_Bang_theory I wrote (the guy who invented the big bang), not the guy who coined it. -- The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable, to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable, and challenge the unchallengeable.