How a Priest Discovered the Greatest Theory of All Time
How Georges Lemaître discovered the Big Bang Theory.
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0:59 Photo of university Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/
1:11 Belgian War Cross Fdutil, CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
4:50 Hubble paper: PNAS 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 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
4:59 Hubble paper: PNAS 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 academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
7:33 European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons
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When people say the Catholic Church supressed science I love to point out that many of the scientific discoveries and theories still accepted today were discovered by Catholic Priests
Georges Lemaître is underrated.
The irony is that the father of the Big bang theory is also a father.
In addition to his brilliance, it’s also the way he approached everything and everyone, in such a humble, patient & kind sort of way for me ♥️
He WAS certainly a priest. He was also most DEFINITELY a scientist. He had degrees in physics and astronomy and studied at Harvard, Cambridge, and MIT.
He really read “Let there be light” and went “Well shit, I gotta write a theory on this”
As a Christian, it’s so satisfying when people attempt to disprove God’s creation of the universe by referring to the Big Bang, as though it’s not a Christian scientist who drove development of the theory :P
Excellent pronunciation of Lemaitre and other French / Belgian names !
Before learning about astronomy I was a Christian and I thought there was no way that I could be a Christian and believe in astronomy because there for so many contradictions. Because of this man I found out that its ok to believe in God and science. I guess you could.say he's one my heroes.
For real, the more we learn, the stranger it gets.
Man this channel is really underrated! I hope for the best that could happen🤞
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I had to pause the video to appreciate the fact a priest came up with the big bang theory not a physicist.
Nobody believed in Lemaitre in the beggining because he was a priest, sadly.
Fr. Georges has been one of my heroes for decades!! ❤🔭👍🏾👍🏾
It was his spiritual advisor, Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, who really pushed Lemaitre into the sciences. Mercier himself was very modern and held the same views on science. He urged Lemaitre to study Einstein's theories. Look up Mercier himself and he was also a great man known for his German resistance during the war.
Make more videos on biographies who won nobel as well as other hidden gems.
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