Georges Lemaître

[Sexton Blake]

He was a catholic priest and christians talk of him as though his knowledge of physics was founded in religion, which of course it was not.

 

Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966)  is often credited with with coming up with "the big bang" idea, a title Fred Hoyle later came up with.

 

Edgar Allan Poe (author) beat him to the idea of a central point of "creation" by decades in his prose poem "Eureka" in 1848, describing how the universe had begun with a single "primordial particle" that exploded outwards in "one instantaneous flash."

 

https://gizmodo.com/how-did-edgar-allan-poe-manage-to-describe-the-big-bang-1682442837

 

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[walterpthefirst]

1 hour ago, Sexton Blake said:

He was a catholic priest and christians talk of him as though his knowledge of physics was founded in religion, which of course it was not.

 

Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966)  is often credited with with coming up with "the big bang" idea, a title Fred Hoyle later came up with.

 

Edgar Allan Poe (author) beat him to the idea of a central point of "creation" by decades in his prose poem "Eureka" in 1848, describing how the universe had begun with a single "primordial particle" that exploded outwards in "one instantaneous flash."

 

https://gizmodo.com/how-did-edgar-allan-poe-manage-to-describe-the-big-bang-1682442837

 

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It's worth noting that most Christians don't understand the difference between Lemaître's 'explosion-from-a-central-point' model and the currently-accepted LCDM model.

 

The former describes a three-dimensional volume of space, with a centre and an edge.

 

Whereas the latter describes a four-dimensional volume of space, without a centre and without an edge.

 

The key point to emphasize here is not which model is actually correct, but the fact that the Christians usually can't tell the difference between the two models.

 

They persist in falsely thinking that a 'Big Bang' must have a centre, an edge and must be expanding into a pre-existing volume of space.

 

But none of these qualities apply to the LCDM model.

 

 

Thank you.

 

Walter.