A Belgian priest and physicist, Father Georges LeMaitre, pointed out that if all the galaxies were receding from each other, they must once have been in a single crush — “A Day without a Yesterday” In opposition to this, the Steady State theory of the universe was the brainchild of Fred Hoyle, and it lasted less than 20 years, from 1948-1965.
Posts Tagged ‘Steady State’
LeMaitre & Hoyle 10
Posted in cosmology, History of Science, tagged Big Bang, Hoyle, LeMaitre, Steady State on August 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Is there a Universe?
Posted in cosmology, tagged Steady State on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The universe is here and it is unified despite the suggestions of multiple universes or of an infinite universe which is a kind of multiple universe, sometimes pretending to be unified, but in fact showing itself multiple, especially multiply contradictory.