teledyn 𓂀Mar 31, 2024

The VRT found in its archives a 1964 interview with Georges Lemaître, the father of the Big Bang (video)
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/fr/2022/12/31/la-vrt-a-retrouve-dans-ses-archives-une-interview-de-1964-de-geo/

#georgeslamaitre #cosmology #quantumcosmology #OnTheOriginsOfTime #astrophysics

La VRT a retrouvé dans ses archives une interview de 1964 de Georges Lemaître, le père du Big Bang (vidéo)

L'interview du chanoine et professeur de l'université de Louvain avait été perdue et on pensait que seul un court extrait d'une minute avait été conservé.

VRT NWS: le site d'information de référence
teledyn 𓂀Apr 10, 2023
Via #Nature, a review and some requisite context for #OnTheOriginsOfTime
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00977-3
>… cosmologists are “often in error but never in doubt”. The remark seems spot on. Still, disciplinary arrogance aside, On the Origin of Time lets you enjoy the cosmologists, understand their theories and realize their flaws, yet sympathize with those whose confidence will soon be demolished.
How Stephen Hawking flip-flopped on whether the Universe has a beginning

The question of what the Big Bang really represented still bamboozles cosmologists — and Hawking provided more than one answer.