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A blurry BBC transcript, printed on lemon yellow paper, that reads: "We now come to the question of applying the obaervational testa to earlier theories. These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was crented in one bigh bang at a partloular time in the renote past. It now turns out that in some respect or other all auch theories are in confliot with the observational requirement, And to a degre that can hardly be ignored, Investigators of thie problem are like a party of mountaineers attempting an unclimbed peak.”

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A blurry BBC transcript, printed on lemon yellow paper, that reads: "We now come to the question of applying the obaervational testa to earlier theories. These theories were based on the hypothesis that all the matter in the universe was crented in one bigh bang at a partloular time in the renote past. It now turns out that in some respect or other all auch theories are in confliot with the observational requirement, And to a degre that can hardly be ignored, Investigators of thie problem are like a party of mountaineers attempting an unclimbed peak.”
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Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Jul-2023 16:00:48 UTC Robert McNees
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Many years later, in 1949, Fred Hoyle would dismissively refer to models of this sort as beginning with a "Big Bang."
Hoyle was a staunch opponent of the idea that the Universe could have a beginning. He was defending his Steady State Theory on the BBC, and criticized “the hypothesis that all matter of the Universe was created in one big bang.”
Nowadays, there are two main ways that the term "Big Bang" is used. Lemaître's original idea shares features with both of them.

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