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the purple tin wrote: »The corona virus is so dangerous and contagious they keep telling us on the news, yet they are more than happy to send their reporters all over the world to do a quick and pointless update to camera at the site of the latest outbreak
They like to send reporters over to anything for quick and pointless updates. Why do we have to have an RTE reporter in America covering stuff? No need for someone to be at the court case of Trump. Waste of money, but that's what the licence is for.0 -
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Well we can observe that the universe is expanding(doppler shifts an' that), stars and the like are flying apart from each other, so if we run the oul tape backwards it means they were closer and closer together over time, which strongly suggests a point where they were, well a point.
God. Earlier. Observing health and safety protocols.
Funny enough the term "the Big Bang theory" was originally used as a disparaging term by those who believed in what is known as the Steady State theory(IE the universe was always the same pretty much), but over time became the name for it. It was IIRC originally called the "Cosmic egg" or Primaeval Atom" theory, thought up by a priest whose name embarrassingly escapes me. I think he was Belgian or French?Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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You should be embarrassed Wibbs. His name was Georges Lemaître. I didn't have to Google that to find out, I already knew because I'm dead smart. And I definitely did not copy and paste the below paragraph from Wikipedia, I typed it out myself using information from my brain and I helpfully included notes and annotations because I'm a nice Guy like that. Just to clarify again, I had heard of this theory before reading your post, I had heard of this man before reading your post, I didn't have to check online for any information I have included here and I am dead smart. I am embarrassed on your behalf Wibbs. SMH.Funny enough the term "the Big Bang theory" was originally used as a disparaging term by those who believed in what is known as the Steady State theory(IE the universe was always the same pretty much), but over time became the name for it. It was IIRC originally called the "Cosmic egg" or Primaeval Atom" theory, thought up by a priest whose name embarrassingly escapes me. I think he was Belgian or French?
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître RAS Associate[1] (/ləˈmɛtrə/ lə-MET-rə, French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləmɛːtʁ] (
listen); 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Jesuit-educated Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.[2] He was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe,[3] which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.[4][5] He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, or the Hubble–Lemaître law,[6][7] and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[8][9][10][11] Lemaître also proposed what later became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, initially calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom".[12] 0 -
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Guy Person wrote: »You should be embarrassed Wibbs. His name was Georges Lemaître. I didn't have to Google that to find out, I already knew because I'm dead smart. And I definitely did not copy and paste the below paragraph from Wikipedia, I typed it out myself using information from my brain and I helpfully included notes and annotations because I'm a nice Guy like that. Just to clarify again, I had heard of this theory before reading your post, I had heard of this man before reading your post, I didn't have to check online for any information I have included here and I am dead smart. I am embarrassed on your behalf Wibbs. SMH.
Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître RAS Associate[1] (/ləˈmɛtrə/ lə-MET-rə, French: [ʒɔʁʒ ləmɛːtʁ] (listen); 17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Jesuit-educated Belgian Catholic priest, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.[2] He was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe,[3] which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.[4][5] He was the first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law, or the Hubble–Lemaître law,[6][7] and made the first estimation of what is now called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[8][9][10][11] Lemaître also proposed what later became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe, initially calling it the "hypothesis of the primeval atom".[12]
That was brilliant thanks
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