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Jesuit priest Georges LeMaitre was the first person to note that Special Relativity did not permit a Universe of infinite age; space was either expanding or contracting. LeMaitre also suggested that the red shift of distant nebula (they were not known to be galaxies in 1929) could be explained by this expansion.

Albert Einstein initially told LeMaitre, "Your math is correct, but your physics is abominable." Einstein later admitted that his failure to see what LeMaitre saw was his "greatest blunder."

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Lemaitre came up with the idea of an expanding universe, but Fred Hoyle actually came up with the phrase "Big Bang" to describe the beginning of our universe from what Lemaitre called a "Primeval Atom".

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