Who came up with the big bang thery?

Answer 1

Theories are not "discovered"; they are developed. "Science" is a process; we gather data by looking around, or doing experiments, or studying things. We try to figure out how they work. When we have gathered enough information to come up with an idea of how things happen, we develop a theory; an explanation that takes all of the evidence into account, and which can be used to make predictions. Based on our theory, we design experiments to see if the predictions that our theory suggests actually work.

We then follow the same path again; more observations, more theory, more experimenting. Eventually, we will gather enough information to say that our theory appears to be true, or to demonstrate that it is false.

The "Big Bang Theory" is going through that process right now. We have some information, especially the isotropic microwave radiation discovered by Penzias & Wilson (for which they won the Nobel Prize) and Edwin Hubble's idea about the expansion of the universe. Astronomers keep looking for more information, and designing new experiments. In many cases, NASA builds the experiments into spacecraft and launches them into orbit; we then gather even MORE information, which is then used to further refine and develop our theories.

At EVERY step of the way, a real scientist is ready to discard his theory if the evidence points in another direction.

Answer 2

The Big Bang theory was formulated by Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Catholic priest, in the 1920s. It was later bolstered by further evidence and development by scientists such as Edwin Hubble and George Gamow.

Answer 3

big bang theory was stated by Edwin Hubble (1889-1953).It states that the universe originated from a huge collision between two particles of concentrated mass.The after effect of that collision has resulted in the formation of the universe.The stars and the galaxies were formed from the explosion .It also states that the universe is also expanding and ths is getting colder and colder.

Almost every statement in the previous paragraph is just plain wrong.

Edwin Hubble did not develop the theoretical structure of the Big Bang, that was done by Jesuit Georges LeMaitre. Hubble confirmed that the distance between us and all other galaxies is expanding, and that the rate of this expansion depends on the distance to that galaxy. Thus, Hubble only confirmed one prediction of BB Cosmology, but had nothing to do with its theoretical development.

We have no idea what happened BEFORE the start of expansion, but it is almost certainly was NOT "a huge collision between two particles of concentrated mass." What happened afterwards was NOT an explosion of concentrated matter into empty space, but an expansion of space itself.

Answer 4

The Big Bang theory has been in existence since around the 1920s, when it was first mooted as a possibility by a Belgian scholar by the name of Georges Lemaitre. This was an early showing of the idea though, and it did not become a mainstream theory until Arno Penziaz and Robert Wilson accidentally picked up some background radiation signatures from the Big Bang itself in the Horn antenna at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, USA in the mid 1960's, however, the term Big Bang itself was coined by a British scientist, Fred Hoyle, who meant it in a moking way, trying to belittle the theory in 1952, but the name stuck, and the rest is history. The basis of the theory we know it to day can trace its basis probably back to Alan Guth, who came up with the inflation theory in MIT back in 1979.

Answer 5

Roughtly the story is, Father LeMaitre first suggested the Big Bang . Friedman, Einstein's mathematician suggested to Einstein that his Gravitational equations were only solvable for expansion or contraction, not equilibrium.

Einstein desired equilibrium and feared Gravity would cause contraction and went with his Cosmological Constant to avoid contraction. The Cosmological Constant was an anti-gravity constant to create a cenrtifugal fiorce to balance gravity;s centripetal force.

Then Hubble's Redshift measures led Physicists to favor the Expansion Expansion thus favoring the Big Bang today.

Hubble did niot favor the Big Bang , he thought the Redshift was an hitherto unknown principle of Nature.

The Red Shift is still being misinterpreted by Physicists. It is still and Unknown Principle of Physics. The redshift is the measure of equilibrium in the Universe. The Redshift is the counter to the Gravitational contraction Einstein feared. It is not a Cosmological "Constant". The gravitational force is centripetal (Inward Force) and the redshift is an indicator of the Centrifugal Force (Outward force). Thus these two forces can balance the Universe in stable Equilibrium as it is and no gravitational collapse or expansion. No Dark Energy needs to be invoked.

Mathematically the Redshift centrifugal force is m(cv/r)cos Beta. Beta is the Redshift Angle. The Redshift = cos(beta) = v/c from Centripetal force mv^2/r = being equal to the Centrifugal force mcv/r cos(beta), being in equilibrium or The Continuity Equation of Gravity!

Answer 6

Jesuit priest Georges LeMaitre was the first scientist to show that an expanding Universe with a specific begining date was consistent with general relativity.

Einstein initially ridiculed LeMaitre by saying, "Your math is correct, but your physics is abominable." Einstein later admitted that his rejection of LeMaitre was his biggest blunder (he credited several things as 'his biggest blunder').

Sir Fred Hoyle coined the term "Big Bang Theory," although Sir Fred did not fully support the idea.

A man named Georges Lamaitre. A catholic who was shot down by science for this theory of the big bang in 1927

Answer 7

Nobody created the big bang theory. The big bang theory created and developed itself.

Answer 8

George Lemaitre in 1927.

But it didn't get called "big bang" until 1949 when F.Hoyle was trying to make fun of it. (he believed in an infinite universe, and so bottomless pits).

Answer 9

A Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaitre.

Answer 10

if you're talking about the show, the answer is Bill Prady and Chuck Lorre.