GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

BIG BANG THEORY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What two scientists contributed greatly to the Big Bang Theory? (Check TWO)
A
Edwin Hubble
B
Albert Einstein
C
Isaac Newton
D
Marie Curie
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Georges Lemaître, (born July 17, 1894, Charleroi, Belgium-died June 20, 1966, Leuven), Belgian astronomer and cosmologist who formulated the modern big-bang theory, which holds that the universe began in a cataclysmic explosion of a small, primeval “super-atom.”

Detailed explanation-2: -One was Lemaître’s Big Bang, advocated and developed by George Gamow. The other model was Fred Hoyle’s Steady State theory, in which new matter would be created as the galaxies moved away from each other.

Detailed explanation-3: -The idea that the universe had a beginning was first suggested by the general theory of relativity, completed by Albert Einstein in 1916. Einstein’s equations, which describe the structure of space and time, suggested that the universe should not be static, but that it ought to be expanding.

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