Big Picture Science – Before the Big Bang: Simon Steele

by Gary Niederhoff on December 17, 2012

Part 3 of Before the Big Bang, featuring Simon Steele, astronomer at Tufts University, imparting the tale of how the big bang theory arose.
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Tagged as: cosmology

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Jean-Luc Margot February 25, 2014 at 5:12 pm: In 1927 Georges Lemaître first proposed what became the Big Bang theory. Hubble’s observations in 1929 confirmed Lemaître’s ideas.
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