How a Priest Discovered the Greatest Theory of All Time
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- How Georges Lemaître discovered the Big Bang Theory.
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4:50 Hubble paper: PNAS www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168
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4:59 Hubble paper: PNAS www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168
5:31 Lemaître’s paper translated into English: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March 1931 academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
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@@emon5434 She makes scientific biopics not on conspiracy theories
Can you do one one Stefan Hawkins pls??
When people say the Catholic Church supressed science I love to point out that many of the scientific discoveries and theories still accepted today were discovered by Catholic Priests
It's the atheistic propaganda bro they just use these things that Church were against science and religion only causes wars and atheism is good and future and they become happy while they did no contribution in science just spending time that Church keep us backward that's the only argument they have 😂😂
Yup I personally think it just to discredit us Christians and make us look dumb
Can you provide me an example to start my self knowledge journey
@@thanos834 * Nicolaus Copernicus: Formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
* Gregor Mendel: Founder of the modern science of genetics.
* Georges Lemaître: Proposed the Big Bang cosmological model of the origin of the universe.
* Marin Mersenne: Remembered by mathematicians for his search for a formula to generate prime numbers based on what are now known as "Mersenne Numbers."
* Antonio Stoppani: Central figure in the establishment of the first Italian geological survey, and in the popularization of earth science in academic as well as popular culture.
* Giuseppe Mercalli: Developer of the Mercalli Intensity Scale for measuring earthquake intensity.
* Robert Grosseteste: Played a key role in the development of the scientific method that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century.
* Roger Joseph Boscovich: Discovered the absence of an atmosphere on the Moon and produced a precursor of atomic theory.
* Pierre Gassendi: First person to observe the transit of a planet across the sun.
* William of Ockham: Coined "Occam's Razor", the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.
* Nicolas Steno: One of the founders of modern stratigraphy and modern geology.
* Nicole Oresme: One of the most famous and influential philosophers of the later Middle Ages.
* Albertus Magnus: Credited with the discovery of the element arsenic and experimenting with photosensitive chemicals, including silver nitrate.
* Matteo Ricci: Created the Kunyu Wanguo Quantu, the earliest known Chinese world map with the style of European maps, crucial in expanding Chinese knowledge of the world.
* Nicholas of Cusa: Concluded that plants absorb nourishment from the air and performed the first modern formal experiment in biology and the first proof that air has weight.
It's not impressive as Fr. Lemaitre, but a bishop of the 14-th century name Nicole Oresme solved a famous problem named "The Harmonic Series", it has realation with modern math, for example the Riemann Zeta function and, therefore, with the Riemann Hyphotesis, that is a Millenium problem, and anyone Who solves it receives 1 Million dolar prize
Georges Lemaître is underrated.
bullish
Elon is trash
In addition to his brilliance, it’s also the way he approached everything and everyone, in such a humble, patient & kind sort of way for me ♥️
You are so right Tsiyone, I really liked your comment. I knew before this video was made (studied theoretical physics) that Georges truly stated the expanding Universe well before Hubble, yet Hubble got the credit... unbelievable... then Einstein on his Static Universe made such a dumb observation but he realized his mistake... Einstein (and most physicists) clearly gives homage to the "Architect" of our Universe (some may call it God). Our Universe is so designed and orderly it's truly amazing... it's too designed to be an accident... a lot happened in just 1 second after the Big Band started...
He was also a decorated war hero for bravery in WW1
The irony is that the father of the Big bang theory is also a father.
wdym?????
What's the irony in that
I fail to see the irony in that. There are several well known people of religious vocation who were also preeminent scientists such as Gregor Mendel who was an Austrian Augustinian Catholic monk and now recognized as the father of genetics, and Nicholas Copernicus who was a Polish Catholic priest and who first proposed the Heliocentric theory more than a half century before Galileo.
How do people in this comments even go to parties you can't even get a joke
Chrixx. Clever, very clever and funny too.
He WAS certainly a priest. He was also most DEFINITELY a scientist. He had degrees in physics and astronomy and studied at Harvard, Cambridge, and MIT.
back then people were admitted to these institutions based on merit and skills
nowadays these colleges only admit you based on your parents’ bank balance
As a Christian, it’s so satisfying when people attempt to disprove God’s creation of the universe by referring to the Big Bang, as though it’s not a Christian scientist who drove development of the theory :P
Exactly
Where does it say big bang in the Bible? What, because a priest discovered it, it’s now part of the doctrine? No, stick to your 7-day fairy tale story. You don’t get to take your religion a-la-cart
Science has nothing to do with personal beliefs.
@@TheAtheist22 Okay? But clearly his faith made him a humble man unlike others.
@@josephantony603 No evidence for what you say. Human decency precedes religion.
One finds deep values in philosophy and the quest for knowledge. Not religion.
He really read “Let there be light” and went “Well shit, I gotta write a theory on this”
And it turned out to be one of the most groundbreaking and important scientific discoveries of all time.
Yeah 😂
Uhm no. He used physics and mathematics to do it.
@@rumblefish9 Well yeah no shit, You have to prove your theory correct through physics and mathematical proofs or it'll just be bogus garbage. That being said plenty of people have had eureka moments after having certain experiences or reading certain works and texts which gives them an idea that ends up as a hypothesis, that is then test it and can lead to new scientific discovery. That's how science works.
Like the dude who ended up discover DNA double helix structure was tripping out on LSD suddenly got the idea to spin the DNA and use X-ray diffraction which lead to his discovery.
Isaac newton theory of gravity was inspired by the observation of an apple falling from a tree which later lead to connected ideas found in early works of ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle.
It just goes to show how random and yet important ideas and works can lead to discoveries.
Before learning about astronomy I was a Christian and I thought there was no way that I could be a Christian and believe in astronomy because there for so many contradictions. Because of this man I found out that its ok to believe in God and science. I guess you could.say he's one my heroes.
You should also look at the life of the great scientist Michael Faraday
You can be a scientist, and also have all sorts of crazy, unrelated ideas. Newton was an amazing scientist, and also believed in all sorts of crazy stuff such as god and alchemy. You can keep your crazy ideas at the side and still be a scientist, but science is not contagious, just because you keep it near, it doesn't make your imaginary friend in the sky is any more real.
@@almafuertegmailcom as if the big big theory isn't crazy. I'm not saying you believe in it but many people who claim belief in a God is crazy will with a straight face talk about the Big Bang as though it isn't a completely redicilous concept
Look up Brother Guy Consolmagno.
Vatican Astronomer who won the Carl Segan medal for Promoting Astronomy.
I would imagine you've heard of Hugh Ross who founded Reasons to Believe and has many lectures here on CZcams. He has over 20 books on cosmology and the Bible.
For real, the more we learn, the stranger it gets.
Excellent pronunciation of Lemaitre and other French / Belgian names !
Agree. I have seen several videos in this channel, and it struck me that Cindy has a very good pronunciation of German names, close to perfect, which is extremely rare among English-speaking narrators. Big kudos for that!! It shows consideration and respect for others.
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According to Christian belief, God created the universe. There are two stories of how God created it which are found at the beginning of the book of Genesis in the Bible. Some Christians regard Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 as two totally separate stories that have a similar meaning.
Source: BBC
A Belgian priest named Georges Lemaître first suggested the big bang theory in the 1920s, when he theorized that the universe began from a single primordial atom.
Source: National Geographic
@gjp But Alexander Friedmann preceeded him by five years in urging for an expanding universe which implied a big bang. Lemaître was made aware of this by Einstein.
God said:
"LET THERE BE LIGHT"
Nobody believed in Lemaitre in the beggining because he was a priest, sadly.
He was a Jesuit teacher, and the opposition was his biblical beginning theory, opposed by scientists.
@@donaldkasper8346 He was not a "cool atheist" like other scientists.
Incorrect. Nobody believed him because his theory brought those, who thought they knew it all, out of their comfort zone.
I had to pause the video to appreciate the fact a priest came up with the big bang theory not a physicist.
I mean the Bible talks about light in the beginning so i think he just put the pieces together and was like "HOLY CHRISTMAS🤯" afterwards
@@JeffersonWMK it was interesting that he decided while young he wanted to be a priest and a scientist, it shows he had a clear idea that the two were not mutually exclusive.
i mean he was a scientist too
@@ariadneschild8460 That's the plus point i guess ,while the science helped him study the outer world, being priest helped him realize his inner
Do you get
A priest
His discovery was from the Bible
So there you go. The origin of the Universe explained by a man who firmly believed in God.
Yeah 😁
It was his spiritual advisor, Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, who really pushed Lemaitre into the sciences. Mercier himself was very modern and held the same views on science. He urged Lemaitre to study Einstein's theories. Look up Mercier himself and he was also a great man known for his German resistance during the war.
Fr. Georges has been one of my heroes for decades!! ❤🔭👍🏾👍🏾
Forgotten by who? Those who didn't take Grade 9 science? I'm a grade 7 teacher, I can assure you that the father of the big bang is NOT forgotten. Now I'm irritated.
Make more videos on biographies who won nobel as well as other hidden gems.
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Einstein's quote at 6:53 did it for me.
Religion is not in opposition to science.
I always wonder why we don't have more people interested in these topics. This is literally about the nature of our existence and our purpose in life.
People think religion Teaches them everything
Because most people are busy reading stuff about celebrities.
@Chandu Navaikulam existensial crisis enters the chat💔
Very interesting. Some may have a great hunch, but the one that can best prove it first could make it more famously as being found by the scientist of the newest findings and the most political, media or networking capabilities.
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That’s why I give my utter most respect to the scientists who helped to improve our understandings of our surroundings and nature. It doesn’t matter if they were famous or not. The act of giving a significant part of your life to such a Noble cause, is enough
Very inspiring!! And are you French or lived in France? Your pronunciation of the French words sounded perfect
Used to live in France :)
Viva le France
Firstly they laugh at you, then they criticize you and then they eulogize about you. Thank you for posting such a highly informative video.
Excellent essay. A great humble man with faith and his great contribution to science.
This video is so well done. Thank you.
Great video.
Good work
Thank you so much fo this content, I love your way of narration.
This brought a tear to my eye.
After seeing this, I just cannot help but wonder how much works or discovery from other scientists that are also men/women of faith that does not garner enough fair recognition from our obviously atheistic dominated media including the scientific community.
Likely a lot. These men and women defy the notion of how they should be "ignorant" because of their faith.
Heck, I doubt you heard of Brother Guy Consolmagno. The Vatican astronomer given a Carl Segan medal for his work in promoting Adtronomy.
Something tells me even Carl Segan would have opposed the award.
There are several well known people of religious vocation who were also preeminent scientists such as Gregor Mendel who was an Austrian Augustinian Catholic monk and now recognized as the father of genetics, and Nicholas Copernicus who was a Polish Catholic priest and who first proposed the Heliocentric theory more than a half century before Galileo.
This is a great channel, thank you.
He read Genesis and believed it. Very few physicists could claim the same.
The bible says there was a beginning event, and so the Jesuit Priest and astronomer also said that. Based on the bible, he had no other model option.
Wow! What a Great man. Respect for for both his humbleness and scientific theory.Cindy,you are doing great work and I request if you can make a video on the tragic life of Subhash Mukhopadhyay,the physician who created World's second test tube baby and India's first but didnt got regocnition due to ostracization by Indian government.
Yes, one video on the great Subhash Mukhopadhyay and his tragic life must be made. Good suggestion.
Great video!
Atheist where you at? Didn't yo know the Catholics also contributes the on going science discoveries till now
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Informative video
Thanks for the content Cindy! Keep up the great work
What a Great man! The man must be given recognition both for his humbleness and his scientific theory of Big Bang.
his story is happier than nikola tesla's one
@@hariniperera8497 yes I agree
He can't. He was a priest.
8:00 i was soooooo happy ..
Hubble never used the word galaxy, he always used nebula. Also Hubble was not humble to mention the studies of Slipher and LeMaitre nor that most of the observations were done by his assistant Humanson.
please make video about De Brogile, Schrodinger & Thomas Young (modern physics)
This is why I am proud of being a Roman Catholic. The Vatican has had a scientific academy since the 1600's. Many argue that science and religion cannot coexist. I believe they not only coexist, but thrive when put together.
6:29 - _"And concluded that a creation like event occurred"_
- This is the most damning part you're leaving out - Lemaître never believed that his discovery where evidence for the absolute start of the universe. He clearly stated that his discovery cannot be proof of the Christian creation myth, simply, because there's no way for science to look back beyond the beginning. Having a beginning of the universe as we know it and a creation of it all is two totally different hypothesis. Therefore, Lemaître did the only rigorous and true thing, as an astronomer he couldn't let his Christian world view come in his way. Because he knew there might as well have been some other physical universe before the Big Bang. Nothing of this discovery is evidence for creation nor an absolute start on anything. However, the pope didn't agree on this part and went on declaring Lemaître's discovery as proof for creation anyway. Yes Lemaître had to beg the pope to change his mind. Thus, many Christians still believe in this faulty idea that the Big Bang corresponds with the Genesis part in the bible.
- It does not.
6:55 - This is why Lemaître got nominated for the _theory of an expanding universe_ and not a _theory for creation_ nor some kind of beginning of the universe. Because such a theory would have been unscientific, unfalsifiable. It doesn't make sense.
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I love your videos! Been binge watching them!! Never knew of Georges Lemaitre, thank you for sharing. I am a believer in Christ and love science. I truly believe the day science and "religion" coexist will be the day we start to really discover the truth. Can you do a bio of Fibonacci if you haven't already.
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nicely put together
Absolutely fantastic...... yet there is still no explanation to where this particle came from and where the "space" of the empty Universe came from!
wow never knew a priest wrote it. well good for him, I enjoyed it, although it did get a bit worse in the later seasons it was still entertaining
_Georges_ Lemaître, not “George’s Lemaître” 🤦🏻♂️
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Astonishing how a little Belgian came with the most revolutionary and worldwide accepted theory of mankind, and was initially ignored by those who thought they knew all.
I like how brief and informative your videos are. Keep it up.
A couple of subtle but important points.
Gravity does not bend space-time. Mass bends the fabric of space-time and the distortion is what we call gravity.
I believe that Eddington's confirmation of general relativity was based on a field of stars in the background of the sun during a solar eclipse, not on only one star.
Appealing to the new quantum theory of matter, Lemaître argued that the physical universe was initially a single particle-the “primeval atom” as he called it-which disintegrated in an explosion, giving rise to space and time and the expansion of the universe that continues to this day.
Source: AMNH
Quandumb says a cat can be dead and alive at the same time, which is equivalent to logic beign reliable and unreliable at the same time, which is one of the dumbest things anyone can believe, but atheists are willing to cling to that nonsense instead of agreeing with the Bible.
Reminds me of Mainlander’s philosophy, albeit only in outer appearance:
„God has died, and his death was the life of the world.”
@handrii2958 Someone make a band with this title.
Extremely interesting. Maybe Dark Energy could be a follow-up topic?
This is mostly our understanding, however Dark Matter combines with ordinary matter to affect gravity. It’s not a repulsive force.
It’s responsible for our galaxies and galaxy clusters remaining close and helps our telescopes to view into the distant past using gravitational lensing.
Your narration is op ...please tell us something about sir charls Darwin ...thanks..
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Where’s the center?
My question is what is the origin of those single particle that caused the big bang and if so can we trace it with proof of cosmological incidence ?
God created it all. God is outside of space and time which is why there is no beginning or end. He has always existed. Space and time are irrelevant to Him. Everything to Him is an eternal now.
Furthermore, and this isn’t my sole question for for the belief in God by any means, but if all you believe in is the natural world / space and such then everything you hear about has to have a beginning, since scientifically as you know something cannot come from nothing. Something would have to be “supernatural” to explain it..good for thought
Food for thought *
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This is just atheist propaganda.
Wait a second, if Big Bang theory was proposed by Georges Lemaitre and the universe is expanding was found out by Vesto Slipher, then what was done by Hubble?
He basically proved alot of what George Lemaitre expounded and theorized on. He did great work and should be honored alongside Georges.
@@newtonia-uo4889 Oh, thanks 😊
@@prasoonjha1816 Hubble gave observable data to Lrmaitre's mostly theoretical work.
He interpreted them into English
Vesto Slipher proclaimed external galaxies two years before Hubble.
A single particle like no other?
When I first saw the thumbnail I thought this was talking about the comedy TV show. :)
Mind and Heart
Lemaitre was a cosmologist. Cosmology is the study of the physical universe, which is a science.
got it , there is rationale, there is introspection, there is light @ end of the tunnel (cliche Lumante being a priest stating Let there be light in his early work) - Meant when it is time to pay the dues of World entitled strata. Alas Bose is hardly in Higgs-Boson particle zoo?
Lamaitre was an amazing catholic priest and he considered that his first love. He used the "big bang theory" to, in his eyes, help prove the existence of God. He argued, if there was a time where everything was together then someone or something must have made it that way. Thus Aquinas's arguement of an unmoved mover became much more valid
amazing
The closest thing to absolute certainty is found in abstract math (in application, there is always an uncertainty, like when counting apples). The best that can be done in the real world is to bet on the odds, while accepting the risk. BOTTOM-UP (Big Bang) cosmology had bet on smaller primal galaxies with the JWST, and lost; whereas, TOP-DOWN cosmology PREDICTED larger primal galaxies, and won. Betting on the odds, TOP-DOWN WINS-- no need for citation because relating the definition of "TOP-DOWN" to the JWST findings of larger primal galaxies is a NEAR TAUTOLOGY!
Make more videos on scientists
If I recall correctly, it wasn’t the pigeons, it’d was the pigeons poop! 💩 😂 🐦
His faith in Christ Jesus was the reason for his humbleness and satisfaction.
His scientific work had nothing to do with faith.
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You should make a video about and for edwin hubble
I might be wrong about this, but you "develop" a theory, and you "discover" a fact.
Do they not realize that the heavens and earth were ˹once˺ one mass then We split them apart?1 And We created from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?
I found this piece while looking over chapter 21 verse 30 of the quran. And it honestly astounds me.
But where did the atom come from? 🤔
But the question is, the did we really come from nothing?
The answer is obvious, which one makes sense to the law of causality? Can something come from nothing? Atheist's or materialistic definition of nothing isn't really nothing, they are already something which is in the form of gravity, so what they propose is actually self-contradicting.
Bro how can we come from nothing? 😂😂
But the big bang is not the beggining of the universe from nothing, no one still knows whether the universe had a beginning or not.
The real question is, why there is something rather than nothing?
@@mjcamarote nothing is an illusion. It doesn't exist.
Nice! You should do one video about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan!!!
imagine a universe that starts with a single particle of gigantic mass that spontaneously divides into two smaller masses (with a force that unites them, like, say primordial gravity). Imagine that over "time" the process of division continues, producing "newer," lighter particles (and forces that unite them) over "time." (Note: The cascade of particles is presently observed as nuclear decay, where heavier elements spontaneously transition into lighter elements.) To see how rapidly the NUMBER of particles (of increasingly smaller mass) can grow in a short amount of time, just multiply 2 x 2 = repeatedly on a small calculator-- in a very short time the numbers go off the scale. Just imagine, then, IN THE PROCESS OF DIVIDING, heavier masses that eventually form galaxies divide over time, seeming coming from nowhere at each epoch of division. This process is known as TOP DOWN evolution. In the end, you have present-day smaller galaxies, plus the cosmic heat signature of NOW-EXTINCT past elements (including galaxies), known today as the cosmic microwave background radiation. (Note: Smaller early galaxies are required by the BOTTOM UP big bang theory, where predicted smaller galaxies form larger galaxies over time, and where the predicted cosmic microwave background radiation would be "smooth," rather than "lumpy," like it would be with the TOP DOWN process I just described.) (PS: Leave the origin of our universe to other theories, PLEASE, so as not to "throw the baby out with the bathwater.")
Georges Lemaître is unknown ???? What ??
Just a random thought if space is a vacuum so there is no form of resistance is the universe expanding because nothing is slowing it down?
The universe would be pulled into itself by its own gravity eventually, but what we see is the universe speeding up, which means there is something actively causing the universe to expand
I thought edwin hubble proposed big bang theory !
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7:18 Nokia? WTF I mean it's Nokia TODAY. But not then.
So this guy was the producer or wrote the original pilot? So confusing?
Seriously, another fantastic video.
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You need to put priest into context. In Belgium in those days, if you wanted to study you had only a few options. Become a doctor, a lawyer or a priest. Lemaître chose the latter. Becoming a priest was a way to gain power in society and respect. It was also a matter of faith. Many young men became priest in those days above their will.
Who came here, and clicked the video thinking that this video will be talking about the TV Series Show, The Big Bang Theory.
But still nothing is 100% known