On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 3:51 PM, LizR <[email protected]> wrote: > The expansion of the universe was discovered in the 1920s >
Yes, Hubble observed that the universe was expanding in the early 1920s, but only in the late 1990s was it discovered that the universe was not just expanding but accelerating due to something we don't understand at all that has been given the name "Dark Energy". > a primordial explosion was *theorised* by Lemaitre, > Lemaitre independently rediscovered a set of equations that were first found by Alexander Friedmann 5 years before. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
