How a Priest Came Up with the Big Bang Theory

Why Georges Lemaître is so unknown. The first 1,000 people to use my link will get a free trial of Skillshare Premium Membership: https://skl.sh/newsthink01211

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0:59 Photo of university Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
1:11 Belgian War Cross Fdutil, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:50 Hubble paper: PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168
4:56 Red shift diagram: Georg Wiora (Dr. Schorsch) created this image from the original JPG.Derivative work:Kes47, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
4:59 Hubble paper: PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168
5:31 Lemaître’s paper translated into English: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March 1931 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/91/5/490/985169
7:33 European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons