I'm panicking cause I really need to know by the end of this week or else i'll fail my art class because I've done no research into my topic at all. And iits not even my fault! I've probably looked through every site on the net that thinks it actually knows what the hell the big bang theory is, but they dont! And if they all say different things how am i supposed to know which is right?!
Please, Please, PLEASE HELP!!!!
Thank You!
Norah H.
2007-01-15 06:24:58 · 8 answers · asked by Norah H. 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Big Bang theory developed from observations of the structure of the universe and from theoretical considerations. Observers determined that most "spiral nebulae" were receding from Earth, but did not grasp the cosmological implications of this fact, or realize that the supposed nebulae were galaxies outside our Milky Way.
Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations from Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity in 1927 and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began as a simple "primeval atom"—now known as the Big Bang.
2007-01-15 06:35:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Big Bang Theory Formulated
2016-12-26 12:11:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the Big Bang Theory was proposed by a catholic Belgian priest.... Georges Lemaitre
2016-03-17 23:55:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"In 1927, the Belgian astrophysicist and Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre proposed that, as a consequence of the equations of Einstein's general theory of relativity, the universe is expanding....He proposed that the universe began as an extraordinarily dense primordial atom of energy. This idea led to the concept of the Big Bang..."
From Discovering the Universe, 6th edition, by Neil F. Comins and William J. Kaufmann III. It's a college astronomy textbook.
Stop trying to find facts on the web. Go to a library and look in books!
2007-01-15 06:38:59 · answer #4 · answered by kris 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Georges Henri Lemaitre first came up with it on a mathematical basis, though he called it 'hypothesis of the primeval atom'. Edwin Hubble was the first person to provide observational evidence for it, and Fred Hoyle later named it the Big Bang theory, though he did so as a sarcastic joke.
For more information, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre
2007-01-15 06:35:22 · answer #5 · answered by dead_elves 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
hubble started this all by saying in his observations that the galaxies he saw were redshifted and must be moving away from eachother - follow it backwards and you have where the galaxies are all in one spot - the big bang. At first einstein Refused to believe it, even added in a constant to equations that canceled what the observations said. --not really an answer, just background info.
2007-01-17 20:43:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Norah, have you tried Wikipedia?
Lemaitre seems to be the one who started it, George Gamow advocated and developed it further. Hoyle coined the phrase "big bang"
2007-01-15 06:39:02 · answer #7 · answered by Celt 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I think i know it....
Wasn't it ME??!!
2007-01-15 07:15:49 · answer #8 · answered by AD 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋