On 30 January 2014 04:47, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > 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". >
True. > > > a primordial explosion was *theorised* by Lemaitre, >> > > Lemaitre independently rediscovered a set of equations that were first > found by Alexander Friedmann 5 years before. > > OK, but it was still theoretical, and remained so until the 60s when it was confirmed, as far as anything in science can be, by Penzias and Wilson. Which is what I said. -- 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.
