Re: Did I miss this new Global Warming material


"da pickle" <jcpickels@(nospam)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"Tad Perry"

The big bang was thought up by a priest ... it was a theological concept.
It took real "scientists" to actually eventually produce the evidence that
changed a hypothet into a real scientific theory.

Um, Pickel, this is lovely propagana.
However, it isn't true.

The guy was a priest... but he was ALSO a scientist.

Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (July 17, 1894 - June 20,
1966) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of
physics and astronomer at the Catholic University of Leuven. He sometimes
used the title Abbé or Monsigneur.

Lemaître proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of
the Universe, which he called his 'hypothesis of the primeval
atom'.[1][2][3]

Lemaitre was a pioneer in applying Einstein's theory of general relativity
to cosmology. He suggested a precursor of Hubble's law in 1927. In 1931, he
published his primeval atom theory in Nature. At the time, Einstein believed
in a static universe and had expressed skepticism about Lemaître's 1927
paper. A similar solution to Einstein's equations, implying a changing
radius of the universe, had been proposed in 1922 by Alexander Friedman, as
Einstein told Lemaître when he approached him with the theory at the 1927
Solvay Conference. (Einstein had also criticized Friedman's theory.) But it
is Lemaître's theory that changed the course of science, for the following
reasons:

a.. Friedman was a mathematician who neither worked with astronomical data
nor cared whether his theory was a description of physical reality.
b.. Friedman died in 1925, soon after first proposing his theory.
c.. Lemaître worked with astronomers and designed his theory to have
testable implications, and to be in accord with observations of the time.
d.. Arthur Eddington made sure that Lemaître got a hearing in the
scientific community.
Lemaître proposed his theory at an opportune time, since Edwin Hubble would
soon publish his velocity-distance relation that strongly supported an
expanding universe and, consequently, the Big Bang theory. In fact,
Lemaître's 1927 paper derived what became known as Hubble's Law, two years
before Hubble did so. Because Lemaître spent his entire career in Europe,
his contributions are not as well known in the United States (USA) as those
of Hubble or Einstein, men well known in the USA by virtue of residing
there.

Both Friedman and Lemaître concluded that the universe must be expanding.
Lemaître further concluded that an initial "creation-like" event must have
occurred. This is the Big Bang theory as we know it today, and why he is
credited with its discovery.

Einstein at first dismissed Friedman and then (privately) Lemaître out of
hand, saying that not all mathematics leads to correct theories. After
Hubble's discovery was published, Einstein quickly and publicly endorsed
Lemaître's theory, helping both the theory and its proposer get fast
recognition.[4]


There are many bits and pieces of good science in climate debates. The
politically motivated conclusions that many try and make are not science
at all. There was a time when there was pretty conclusive consensus on
eugenics. There may be truth in many parts but the political crowd took
over and there is no ability to even study such matters any more.


We have ONE planet.
We're stuck doing the math and making the best decisions based on it.
We DON'T have the opportunity to run the test 20 or 30 times.


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