GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

BIG BANG THEORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A Belgian priest named ____ first suggested the Big Bang Theory in the 1920s, when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom
A
George Lemeter
B
Georges Lemoiter
C
Georges Lemaitre
D
Georges Lemetre
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Georges Lemaître, (1894-1966), Belgian cosmologist, Catholic priest, and father of the Big Bang theory.

Detailed explanation-2: -Lemaître also proposed the “Big Bang theory” of the origin of the universe, calling it the “hypothesis of the primeval atom", and later calling it “the beginning of the world".

Detailed explanation-3: -LeMaitre, born in Belgium, was a monsignor in the Catholic church. He was fascinated by physics and studied Einstein’s laws of gravitation, published in 1915. He deduced that if Einstein’s theory were true (and there had been good evidence for it since 1919), it meant the universe must be expanding.

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