There are some things in life thateverybody just knows, like where the Eiffel Tower is, or whyit’s okay to catch a butterfly with your hands, but not a bee. These are examples of the kind of knowledge that is so basic, you just pick it up naturally throughout your life and couldn’tpossibl y remember where you first heard it. As a result of this, alot of things we hear are often taken for granted as truth, and some mistakes become so wide spread that saying otherwise would make people think you were lying, or stupid. Well here are a example of a person who are wrongfully accredited with being the first to accomplish something. This one will undoubtedly make alot of readers angry, and as former US Secretary of State DeanRusk said “The best way to persuade people is with a long, angry comment on the internet”, so go wild. A Belgian priest, Fr. Georges Lemaitre, proposed the theory of the expanding Universe in 1927, but was unsure about how this could occur, so he met with Einstein to discuss it. Einstein was not convinced and apparently told Lemaitre “Your calculations are good, but your physics is terrible”. In 1931, Lemaitre suggested that the universe had begun from a minuscule point that contained all matter, which he called the primeval atom, which exploded at the moment of creation. That same year, he visited Einstein, who this time was convinced, and said that rejecting it the first time was the biggest mistake of his life. The name “Big Bang” was used first by skeptic physicist, Fred Hoyle, who was actually using the name as a way to make the whole theory sound ridiculous.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 02:34:38 +0000
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