How a Priest Discovered the Greatest Theory of All Time

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How Georges Lemaître discovered the Big Bang Theory.

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0:59 Photo of university Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
1:11 Belgian War Cross Fdutil, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
4:50 Hubble paper: PNAS
4:56 Red shift diagram: Georg Wiora (Dr. Schorsch) created this image from the original JPG.Derivative work:Kes47, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons
4:59 Hubble paper: PNAS
5:31 Lemaître’s paper translated into English: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March 1931
7:33 European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons