Google celebrated the 124th birthday of Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître with a doodle. Lemaître was a Catholic priest who is believed to be the first to have theorized that the universe is expanding.
Lemaître is also credited with proposing what is now known as the Big Bang theory – which says that the universe began with an explosion of a single particle. Born in 1894, Lemaître was a Belgian Catholic priest who proposed that the universe started as a single primordial atom, which he referred to as the ‘Cosmic Egg.’ His thesis was based on calculations which were from the Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. Einstein, however, dismissed Lemaitre’s work, saying, “Your calculations are correct, but your physics is atrocious.” Two years later, Einstein accepted Lemaître’s calculations.
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