Is it true that it was some catholic in 1927 and not Mr. Edwin Hubble to propose Big Bang theory in 1929?

Question

As per Dan Brown novel Angels andDemons

Answer 1

Yes but the Pope said nope. Nope nope said the pope, its God's universe don't be a dope. The earth goes round the sun it is my faith and my hope. Then the pope gave a medal to Stephen Hawking for the silly singularity.

Answer 2

Hubble really had nothing to do with the proposal of the Big Bang as the origin of the universe, though his observations gave very important support for the theory.

The idea itself dates to before the 20th century in early forms, but was first put in recognisable modern form by the Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaître in 1927. He called it his "hypothesis of the primeval atom".

Answer 3

Yes Lemaitre was the first one.

Einstein agreed with his mathematics but rejected the conclusion saying it was too much influenced by the Christian idea of creationism.

Aparently the Vatican has a major stake in astronomy.

It started when Papal astronomers trying to detemine the date of Easter Sunday (first Sunday following the pascual full moon) noticed that the Julian calendar was running out of synchrony with the stars, and replaced it with the current one in 1582- the Gregorian calendar (while the Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar).

In 1891, Pope Leo XIII established the Vatican Observatory just behind St. Peter's dome in Rome, specifically to demonstrate that the church was not hostile to science. Later it was moved to Castel Gandalfo because of encroaching light pollution from Rome. Angelo Secchi was a Jesuit priest, director of the observatory, known as one of the father of astrophysics.

In 1993 the Vatican Obsevatory base was moved to the Arizona desert, in collaboration with the University of Arizona who developed a telescope that was first of its kind. It had the capacity to read a newspaper five miles away.

I didn´t know that!

ps: for more information on the calculation of Easter Sunday: http://www.hourworld.com/easter.htm

Answer 4

Yes, its true although Lemaître also based his supposition and theory on the assumptions of cosmology by scholars before him such as Einstien. He's the first guy to consider the "explosion" though...which now is understood as being improbable and not a possible cause of the creation of a solar system or galaxy based on certain objects and their distance and newness. Its sorta like how Watson and Crick take total credit for the discovery of the DNA helix when in actual fact it was a woman scientist named Rosalind Franklin who discovered it. Love in Christ, ~J~

Answer 5

Belgian priest Georges Lemaître.

Answer 6

Beavis above gave his name, a priest (I'm remembering a reference to him on History Channel's excellent series on the universe) presented a counter viewpoint to the one which eventually won the day among space scientists.

Answer 7

sort of. the theory has changed quite a bit since the 'primeval atom' idea, due to advancements in particle physics and observational cosmology.

Answer 8

no it isn't. dan brown is a writer of fiction. just like the authors of the bible.