Fr. Georges Lemaître and Einstein – The Big Bang is a Catholic Theory – Exclusive Photo Restoration – Archival Qualioty – Catholic Art

Most people do not know that a Belgian priest, Fr. Georges Lemaître, is the originator of the Big Bang Theory. In 1929 the astronomer Hubble discovered reshifting (the stretching of light waves from galaxies as they recede from us). But in 1927, Cambridge-, MIT-, and Harvard-trained physicist, Fr. Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), had proposed the expanding universe theory in a published paper. He called it "a day which had no yesterday," an instant from which emerged what we now call the space-time continuum.He had sent the paper to Einstein, who at first told him it was "abominable." It contradicted Einstein's spherical steady-state universe model. However, by the time of this photograph at the Caltech conference of cosmology in 1933, Einstein agreed with Lemaitre and had much to discuss with the young priest. Lemaître had published another paper in 1931 saying the universe had expanded from a single primeval atom, an idea later refined by Stephen Hawkings, but at the time Einstein did n