Podcasts about georges lemaitre

Kur'an-ı Kerim tam 1400 sene önce evrenin genişlediğinden haber vermektedir. Ayet-i kerimede şöyle buyrulmaktadır: “Biz göğü kudretimizle bina ettik ve şüphesiz biz onu genişletiyoruz.” (Zariyat s. 47) Kur'an'ın evrenin genişlemesinden haber veren ayetini bu şekilde tahlil ettikten sonra şimdi de bu konuda ilmin ne dediğine bakalım: 20. yüzyılın başlarına kadar bilim dünyasında hâkim olan tek bir görüş vardı. Bu görüş evrenin durağan bir yapıya sahip olduğu ve sonsuzdan beri aynı şekliyle süregeldiği görüşüydü. 20. yüzyıla kadar hiçbir bilim adamı evrenin genişlemesinden bahsetmemiş, bırakın bahsetmeyi belki bunu hayal bile etmemişti. Rus fizikçi Alexander Friedmann ve Belçikalı evren bilimci Georges Lemaitre 20. yüzyılın başlarında evrenin sürekli hareket hâlinde olduğunu ve genişlediğini teorik olarak hesapladılar. Bu gerçek 1929 yılında gözlemsel olarak da ispatlandı. Amerikalı astronom Edwin Hubble kullandığı dev teleskopla gökyüzünü incelerken, yıldızların ve galaksilerin sürekli olarak birbirlerinden uzaklaştıklarını keşfetti. Yıldızlar ve galaksiler sadece bizden değil, birbirlerinden de uzaklaşıyorlardı. Evrenin genişlemekte olduğu ilerleyen yıllarda yapılan gözlemlerle de kesinlik kazandı. Her şeyin sürekli olarak birbirinden uzaklaştığı bir evren ise “sürekli genişleyen” bir evren anlamına gelmektedir. Evrenin genişlemesini şişirilen bir balonun yüzeyi gibi düşünün. Balonun yüzeyindeki noktaların balon şiştikçe birbirlerinden uzaklaşmaları gibi, evrendeki cisimler de evren genişledikçe birbirlerinden uzaklaşmaktadırlar. 20. asırda ancak keşfedilebilen bilimsel bir gerçeğin bundan 14 asır evvel bir kitapta yazması ve bu hakikatin okuma yazma bilmeyen bir beşer tarafından haber verilmesi bu haberin Allâh (c.c.)'un vahyi olduğuna ve Kuran'ın Allâh (c.c.)'un kitabı olduğuna delalet eder.(www.mevlanatakvimi.com)

11Z. EPIZÓDA / Na akej teórii pracoval Stephen Hawking posledné roky svojho života? Jeho dlhoročný spolupracovník, Thomas Hertog, o tom napísal knihu s názvom Počiatok času (The Origin of Time). Hawking sa snažil vysvetliť ako začal náš vesmír, ktorý sa zdá byť dokonalo vhodný na vznik vedomého života, bez toho aby sa odvolával na antropický princíp. Thomas Hertog mu však pripomenul, že o niečo podobné sa pokúšal pred takmer sto rokmi Georges Lemaitre - v časoch, keď ešte nikto ani neveril, že vesmír vznikol veľkým treskom a neustále sa rozpína. O tom ako vysvetliť začiatok našej reality sa rozprávali fyzik Jaro Varchola a neurovedec Peter Jedlička. ----more---- + + vypočujte si všetky extra časti a podporte tvorbu Kvanta ideí

Es gibt das sichtbare Universum und die unsichtbare geistige Welt. Dort kann alles auf den Urknall zurückgeführt werden, hier können wir nur auf personalem Weg ein Verständnis erreichen. Bild von Matthias Böckel auf Pixabay

In this episode, Madeline chats with her Pat Schloss, a microbiologist/biology professor at Michigan who studies the microbiome. During their conversation, they discuss data science, his postdoc at University of Wisconsin-Madison, undergrad and grad school at Cornell in agricultural and biological engineering, farm life, his large family and how having families should be normalized, the opportunity to be a role model and being good steward of the power you're given, his three year apostasy phase, an influential religious studies class and Trappist monastery visit, conversion, Opus Dei, work as prayer and sacrifice, loving those we disagree with, a typical day in his life, his spiritual game plan, sabbathing appropriately, our call to evangelize, and so much more!During the course of their conversation, they make many references which you can explore. Some of these references include the movie Contact, the Monsignor Shea talk at SEEK24, this 1993 NYT interview of Fr. Georges Lemaitre, and episodes 2 and 5 of this podcast.If you want to reach out to Pat, you can reach him here: peschloss@gmail.comFeel free to like, subscribe, and share the episode! Follow us on Instagram! @sbltfpodcastDon't forget to go out there, and be a light to this world!

What is nothing? Does nothing exist? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore cosmological curiosities about the end of the universe, dark matter, and more!NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.Thanks to our Patrons Matej Dvonč, Robert Weaver, David Lindberg, Denis, Jesus Hernandez, and Jack Reeves for supporting us this week.Photo Credit:  NASA / JPL-Caltech / L. Jenkins (GSFC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Dan Levitt is a director, documentarian, and an author. His latest book, What's Gotten Into You: The Story Of Your Body's Atoms, From The Big Bang Through Last Night's Dinner, is now available for purchase! For the promulgation of good science to the general public–in a format and a language that is accessible to all–we look, now more than ever, to trusted figures like Dan. As you can see, his passion for science is infectious. I learned a TON from (first) reading his fine book and then hosting him for this amazing conversation. In this episode, Dan and I discuss: Materialism v. Spiritualism; Science v. Religion; The Big Bang, and what preceded it; Genesis v. Aristotle; The Steady State theory; The validity of Stephen Jay Gould's concept of “Non-Overlapping Magisteria” (NOMA); Atomic and subatomic theory; quarks; the cosmos; Albert Einstein; Georges Lemaitre; Rosalind Franklin; Benjamin Franklin; Watson and Crick; Jan Ingenhousz; Photosynthesis; The beauty of nature; Having an artistic and a scientific mind; The current state of “Science”...And MUCH more! A link to purchase Dan's book: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Gotten-Into-You-Through/dp/0063251183/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BJXQ2G33RV9N&keywords=dan+levitt&qid=1688233498&sprefix=dan+levitt%2Caps%2C104&sr=8-1Dan's website: https://danlevitt.com/+++ My Stuff: Check out my Instagram page for shorts from this and prior episodes: @danielethanfinneran https://www.instagram.com/danielethanfinneran/Twitter: @DanielEFinneranWebsite: finneranswake.comSend emails to finneranswake@gmail.comMy sister project, PNEUMA, on which I put out sleep stories, meditations, mindfulness content: @pneumabydanielfinneran  Pneumameditations.comBe sure to subscribe to this channel if you enjoy these conversations. Share them with family and friends!  #bigbang #science #education

Season 2 of Spirit-Led Hope looks at the origin story of our universe and life. In this episode, Glenn begins explaining how the universe started from the naturalistic perspective. This episode looks at  the foundational work done by Newton, Faraday, Maxwell, and Einstein. Based on the work by these giants of science, a Belgian Catholic priest named Georges Lemaitre formulated the first thoughts about what is now called the Big Bang Theory. Glenn points out the irony that the most commonly accepted naturalistic theory for the beginnings of the universe was advanced by scientists who believed in God. This episode has a transcript. If your podcast player does not support transcripts, please go to the podcast section of https://spiritledhope.com/ .

In this special solo episode, Madeline celebrates turning 25 by talking briefly about 25 Catholic scientists that she thinks people should know about. From well-known to the less known, from canonized saints to the Catholic laymen, from priest to married, they span a variety of science disciplines and vocations. Here's the list of the 25 in order of being mentioned:St. Albert the GreatFr. Georges Lemaitre, SJFr. Gregor Mendel, OSASt. Gianna Beretta MollaSr. Miriam Michael Stimson, OPFr. Angelo Secchi, SJSt. Joseph CanhBonaventura CavalieriVenerable Jerome LejeuneLouis BrailleAndre-Marie AmpereBl. Carlo AcutisPope Sylvester IISt. Hildegard of BingenBl. Hermann ReichenauBl. Nicolaus StenoBl. Jose Gregorio HernandezSt. Guiseppe MoscatiServant of God Takashi NagaiBl. Guadalupe OrtizBl. Benedetta Bianca PorraAlessandro VoltaSt. Luke the EvangelistSt. CosmasSt. DamianMadeline highly recommends reading up on these cool Catholic scientists!Feel free to like, subscribe, and share the episode! Follow us on Instagram! @sbltfpodcastDon't forget to go out there, and be a light to this world!

At times I feel that this "intro" to cosmology is almost TOO intro! It's hard to do justice to the complexity of a century of inquiry in just a few minutes. But these episodes are really designed to lead you to the main "players" in the game. And the story of the universe in the 20th century is not told without mentioning Lemaitre and Hoyle.If you ask your students who the biggest opponent to the theory of the Big Bang was, they likely will say the church. That is actually incorrect. The biggest opponent was the scientific community because the main idea was that the universe was STATIC and unchanging. The person leading that parade was Albert Einstein who told LeMaitre that his math was fine but his physics was atrocious!Einstein, LeMaitre and Hubble all met together to discuss their repsective ideas of the universe, and eventually Einstein realized that the data was correct and the universe IS expanding. He referred to his cosmological constant as his biggest blunder, because he had formulated it to counteract the possibility that the universe was in motion.Truly one of the greatest scenes in scientific history would have been that epic conversation between these three great scientists. Maybe have your students act it out and re-enact that pivotal moment in our understanding of the universe.

Now that we've considered a bunch of the options for interpreting creation in Genesis, we are moving to look at astronomy. In today's episode Will Barlow moves into his home territory--physics. You'll learn about the weird nature of light, how particles do strange things at the quantum scale, and how the big bang model actually leads to belief in God. If you've ever been curious how to talk to science-minded friends and relatives about belief in God, today's episode should help! Listen to this episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiRc2q_RFX4&list=PLN9jFDsS3QV1Etu1jXO3jbUQ6CFI-2k6W&index=6 See below for notes. —— Links —— We are doing follow-up discussions to these episodes on YouTube. Check them out! See other episodes in this Scripture and Science Class Check out Barlow's previous podcast episodes Learn more about and support the church Barlow and his team are starting in Louisville, KY, called Compass Christian Church Find more articles and audios by Barlow on his website: Study Driven Faith Check out the early Christian quotes about the Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew here Support Restitutio by donating here Designate Restitutio as your charity of choice for Amazon purchases Join our Restitutio Facebook Group and follow Sean Finnegan on Twitter @RestitutioSF Leave a voice message via SpeakPipe with questions or comments and we may play them out on the air Intro music: Good Vibes by MBB Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Free Download / Stream: Music promoted by Audio Library. Who is Sean Finnegan?  Read his bio here —— Notes —— Overview of Modern Physics • Light• General Relativity• Quantum Mechanics• The Big Bang Light • Perhaps the most interesting and necessary to support life• Comes in many forms• Can act as a wave or a particle (unique!)• Light can act like a wave (ex: sound or water)• Light can act like a particle (ex: basketball)• Light seems to know the fastest path through a material• The speed of light is a well-known quantity and is considered the “speed limit of the Universe” General Relativity • Has been verified enough to use in everyday items like GPS• Gravity can bend light and make “impressions” in space-time Quantum Mechanics • Useful when talking about microscopic things• Shows that electrons do not orbit a nucleus like a planet around the Sun• Gives probabilities for direction and location at any given time Imagine that you reach your hand out to touch a table: • On a microscopic level, what you feel as “solid” is actually the electrons in your hand repelling the electrons in the table• Theoretically, your hand could pass through the table if you could line up the electrons in your hand with the electrons in the table (quantum tunneling) The Big Bang • Some ancient pagans (like Aristotle) believed that the Universe always existed — called a “steady state” Universe• This view is attractive for modern atheists because it does not require a beginning to the Universe Kalam Cosmological Argument • John Philoponus of Alexandria (4th century) was a Christian philosopher who argued that the Universe had a beginning• Islamic philosophers preserved this argument in the Middle Ages• Jewish scholars brought this back to Europe at the end of the Middle Ages• Whatever begins to exist has a cause.• The Universe had a beginning.• Therefore, the Universe has a cause. Atheists are motivated to show the Universe did not have a beginning! The Big Bang • Alexander Friedmann used Einstein's theory of general relativity to propose an expanding Universe• Catholic priest and professional astronomer Georges Lemaitre proposed what would later be called “the Big Bang theory” in 1927 using Einstein's theory of general relativity and Friedmann's expanding model• This basic model is still being tested and tweaked today• In 1929, Edwin Hubble discovered that far-away stars are “red-shifting” in every direction• This only makes sense if the Universe is expanding• If we extrapolate backwards, we end up with a fixed point at the beginning of the Universe!• Atheists were quick to propose an alternative solution: what if the Universe was expanding, but matter is continuously created to keep the average density the same?• This is called the “steady state” hypothesis• This would allow for an infinitely old Universe• In the 1960s, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered the “cosmic microwave background radiation”• If you point a radio telescope at the space between stars, you will hear faint interference• This demonstrated that the Universe was formerly more dense than now, which refutes the steady state hypothesis In basic terms, what does the Big Bang theory say? • The Universe began approximately 13.7 billion years ago• Space and matter have been expanding and cooling since then What is the current state of the Big Bang? • We will never be able to travel back in time to observe the beginning• Physicists used high-energy collisions to test hypotheses related to the Big Bang• There is a physical restriction on understanding the first moment of the Big Bang Are there viable alternatives to the Big Bang? • Oscillating universe — Universes expand and contract until the right one pops out• Multiple Universes — Infinite number of Universes exist beyond our ability to observe them• Inflationary models• Hawking's theory William Lane Craig on Alternatives Oscillating Model: • Violates the laws of physics (a beginning singularity is inevitable according to general relativity)• Not enough density in the universe to contract the universe (pg. 114)• The universe is actually speeding up in its expansion• Some estimates say that only 100 universes could have existed before this one (does not resolve the problem for atheists) (pg. 115) Multiple universes (especially one with an eternal mother universe): • Cannot explain the beginning of the model (a quantum sea of energy is something, not nothing)• Eventually, all universes would collide together (pg. 117) Inflationary models: • One cyclic model is inconsistent with the string theory that it is based on• Another chaotic inflation model does not resolve the problem of a beginning (pgs. 116-117) Hawking's theory: • Uses imaginary numbers in the equations to describe the universe• Essentially an attempt to game the equations to remove the origin of the universe (pg. 120)

Thomas Hertog vertelt hoe de Big Bang is bedacht aan de Universiteit van Leuven door Georges Lemaitre; Koen Leysen weet alles over trekvogels; Flip Feyten heeft de biografie van Boris Johnson gelezen; en Leen Verheyen filosofeert over wat je kan leren door romans te lezen.

What does a Special Response Team, Explosive entry tools and volleyball have to do with creation theory? You might be surprised this simple yet profound statement: "Preacher, explosions don't build stuff." DISCLAIMER: The use of "Big Bang Theory" is accommodative language based in the colloquial understanding of the theory rather than it's true scientific understanding. English astronomer Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term "Big Bang" in a 1949 BBC Radio Broadcast. It is popularly reported that Hoyle intended the term as a pejorative (although he explicitly denied this). The "Big Bang" refers to the rapid expansion and not explosion of the universe from a singularity. The original unnamed theory was formalized by astronomer Georges Lemaitre. Lemaitre first noted in 1927 that an expanding universe could be traced back to an originating single point (a temporal beginning of time, space and or space time) which he called the "primeval atom" which we now understand as a singularity. Hubble confirmed through analysis of galactic redshifts the that galaxies were drifting apart and thus had to have had a beginning and therefore the universe was not eternal. This is seen by some to indicate a theistic implication and points to model that would include a creating force for the universe. Lonnie Jones books are available at amazon.com Lesson archives and just for fun videos are on the lonnie jones Youtube Channel Artwork such as t-shirts, hoodies, prints and stickers are available at www.teespring.com/stores/lonnie-jones-art --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lonnie-jones/support

On this ID the Future, John Lennox tells about discovering the damage atheism does to people, by seeing it firsthand in communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and seeing what it does to rationality itself. In his continuing conversation with host and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer, Lennox relates how in his interactions with famous religiously skeptical scientists, he emphasizes that the Judeo-Christian worldview did much to give us science. When skeptical scientists ask the Oxford mathematician and philosopher how Christianity could have anything to say to science, Lennox is ready with an answer. This is the second part of a three-part conversation in which Lennox discusses his new documentary, Against the Tide, filmed with actor and host Read More › Source

Valérie Laflamme-Caron revient sur son périple au Rwanda avec Ginette Côté et le père Yoland Ouellet des œuvres pontificales missionnaires. Alex Deschênes réhabilite la figure du père Georges Lemaitre en cosmologie. Florence Malenfant nous témoigne de l’accueil de son prochain enfant à naitre qui vivra avec le spina bifida. ♫ ♫ ♫ Salif Keita - La Différence Nils Frahm - Says. Il trouvait que ça faisait très astronomique comme musique --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/onpdm/message

Orgaan vd week:De Schildklier! over opgroeien en kernexplosies...Verguisde wetenschapper: Georges Lemaître, en de grote knalIG Nobel:  De val van beboterde toast! WETENSCHAPSNIEUWTJES Coronavaccin lijkt te werken! Het vaccin AZD1222 roept een krachtige en tweevoudige immuunreactie op, zo schrijven onderzoekers vandaag in het blad The Lancet. Bedenk een plee voor de maantrip en win 35.000$ Een flinke uitbreiding van onze biotoopDiep onder de oceaanvloer is er leven ontdekt. IG Nobel: De IgNobelprijs 1995 voor de natuurkunde is toegekend aan: Robert Matthews van de Aston University, Engeland, voor zijn onderzoek naar de Wet van Murphy en met name voor het aantonen dat toast vaak op de beboterde kant valt. "Tumbling toast, Murphy's Law and the Fundamental Constants"European Journal of Physics, deel 16,nr.4, 18 juli 1995, pp.172-6 Links uit de aflevering...  "Schildklier: klachten en symptomen | De hormoonfactor." https://www.dehormoonfactor.nl/schildklier. "Schildklier - Wikipedia." https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schildklier."Georges Lemaître - Wikipedia." https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre."Georges Lemaître | Belgian astronomer | Britannica." 13 jul.. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Georges-Lemaitre."COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 showed robust immune ...." 20 jul.. 2020, https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/covid-19-vaccine-azd1222-showed-robust-immune-responses-in-all-participants-in-phase-i-ii-trial.html"AstraZeneca advances response to global COVID-19 challenge." 21 mei. 2020https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/astrazeneca-advances-response-to-global-covid-19-challenge-as-it-receives-first-commitments-for-oxfords-potential-new-vaccine.html."Robert Matthews (scientist) - Wikipedia." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Matthews_(scientist)."Aston University: Home." https://www.aston.ac.uk/"Wet van Murphy - Wikipedia." https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_van_Murphy.

Astrónomo belga a quien se debe una primera formulación de la teoría cosmológica del Big Bang acerca del origen del universo. En 1927 descubrió una solución para las ecuaciones relativistas de Albert Einstein que ofrecía como resultado un universo en expansión. Cualquier comentario o sugerencia favor de enviar mensaje a: prastronomypodcast@gmail.com // Twitter @prastronomypod1

Dr. Jonathan Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Science and chair of the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University. He is also the vice president and a co-founder of the Society of Catholic Scientists. Here is information about the Vatican Observatory. It was one of the starting points for Lunine’s exploration of the compatibility between science and the Catholic faith. He met Stephen Barr in 2014, and this led to their discussions about establishing the Society of Catholic Scientists. Here is a talk given by Barr at the University of Chicago. Here is a talk by Lunine about Georges Lemaitre, a Catholic priest recognized as an originator of the Big Bang theory. In our conversation, Lunine described a presentation on Lemaitre that he gave at Cornell as a kind of “coming-out party” for him as a Catholic convert with his own story to tell. He has addressed Catholic students with the advice to share one’s faith story but to be judicious, following the practice of St. Paul, who adapted his messages to his audiences. A recommendation for discussions of faith: “There’s a time and a place for everything.” Lunine mentioned Elaine Ecklund, who has studied what scientists think about the American culture’s understanding that science and religion are incompatible. Harvard physicist Lisa Randall, who has said belief in God is incompatible with science, is an example of the resistance to faith that many scientists encounter in academia, Lunine said. Our culture gives much credibility to scientists, who owe it to their audiences to be clear about when they are speaking as individuals rather than scholarly experts. Lunine also mentioned the Thomistic Institute, which has a chapter on the Cornell campus founded by a graduate student. Part of the difficulty in the dialogue between science and religion is a popular but erroneous view that the Bible was intended to be a book of science. Here is a discussion of St. Augustine’s examination of this claim. Another challenge, Lunine said, is that our children generally grow up without a substantive education in religion.

In this episode we have Jonathan Lunine on the podcast, this time talking to him about his own spiritual journey from Judaism to Catholic Christianity, and from the secular surface of life as a scientist to a deeper life where the beauty of science is one prominent part of a larger whole of human experience. We also get the chance to discuss some of his work in studying the planets during the era when they changed from objects seen through a telescope to worlds we can map and even sample and bring back to our laboratories. Jonathan Lunine, a planetary scientist at Cornell University, is a member of the board of the Society of Catholic Scientists. He spoke of the influence of reading Carl Sagan’s The Cosmic Connection and receiving Sagan’s advice for pursuing a career in astronomy. Dr. Lunine has been on the scientific teams leading several missions of space exploration, including Cassini and, now, the James Webb Space Telescope. He described his early spiritual journey, seeing how science and religion could be intertwined. The journey took him from Jewish family roots to a Methodist church and then to Catholicism. He spoke of being impressed by the connection between the Catholic faith and its Jewish roots. Astronomers have been excited to learn of the abundance of planets to be found in our galaxy. As Dr. Lunine pointed out, thanks to initiatives like the New Horizons spacecraft, we have turned our “cosmic backyard” into a place where we can study an enormous variety of geology “and even, potentially, biology.” He expressed gratitude for astronomers and others who became role models embracing the compatibility between science and faith. A key figure, about whom he has made presentations, is the Belgian priest Georges LeMaitre, known as the father of the big bang theory. This was one of our most enjoyable conversations, and we definitely hope to have Dr. Lunine back on the podcast again.

Theologie und Naturwissenschaft - geht das zusammen? Der belgische Priester Georges Lemâitre hat es gelebt: er ging zwei Wege zur Wahrheit, in dem er Glaubensdinge und wissenschaftliche Erkenntnis sauber trennte. Autor: Wolfgang Burgmer

2 June 2019 Seventh Sunday of Easter John 17:20-26 + Homily 17 Minutes 11 Seconds Link to the Readings: http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/060219-7thday.cfm (New American Bible, Revised Edition) From the parish bulletin:   To have known Father Stanley Jaki for more than twenty years was a privilege and a challenge. The privilege was to count as friend and mentor this Benedictine cited by many as one of the five priests whose science has most shaped our understanding of the world. The others are Copernicus in astronomy, Mendel in genetics, Mercalli in seismology, and Lemaitre in physics. The challenge was in being corrected often by this fiery Hungarian whose zeal in debate took no prisoners.     In my book Cloud of Witnesses, I mentioned how Jaki cautioned me against making the Big Bang theory into a theological statement. That was similar to the polite correction Georges Lemaitre made, on a higher plane, in 1951when Pope Pius XII had implied that Lemaitre’s Big Bang proposition proved a Creator as well as Creation.    Einstein admired Lemaitre, and you might say that he was agnostic about agnosticism, observing cryptically: “If God created the world, his primary concern was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us.” Einstein could be impatient with outright atheists: “The eternal mystery of the world is its  comprehensibility.” He could not say more without compromising the limits of his own science. Saint Augustine wrote: “We do not read in the Gospel that the Lord said, ‘I will send the Paraclete to teach you the course of the sun and the moon;’ in fact, He wanted to create Christians, not mathematicians.” Later, Cardinal Baronio, a spiritual disciple of Saint Philip Neri, epigrammed: “The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go.”    This applies to the enigmatic Shekhinah, or Glory of God, in the form of a cloud that accompanied the wandering Jews (Exodus 13:21) and appeared on Sinai (Exodus 24:16) and on Tabor (Matthew 17:5). Finally, it was seen at the Ascension. While this cloud could be perceived by human senses, it was beyond physical analysis. Here meteorology yields to another dimension for which there is no human definition other than acknowledgement of its existence. The Christian response moves beyond analysis to rejoicing. When Saint Paul spoke of a man who had experienced a “Third Heaven” (2 Corinthians 12:2) he could say no more than that.    I knew a woman who, Christmas caroling as a child, sang “Silent Night” outside Einstein’s house at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton. The Professor appeared on the porch with his violin and, while not singing the words, played the music.    In a sermon of 388, Gregory of Nyssa mentioned a special Feast of the Ascension to celebrate the Phos tou kosmou, the Light of the World. At the Ascension, the angel told the people not to gaze into the heavens, but to pray. Saint Paul would say: “When the Lord comes again, the living and the dead will be gathered in the clouds” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17).

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Er war Priester und Physiker: Der Belgier Georges Lemaître entdeckte den Urknall. Dabei überzeugte seine Theorie von der Entstehung des Universums die Fachwelt anfangs nicht - nicht einmal Albert Einstein.

In 1927 Fr. Georges Lemaitre published a paper in a little known Belgian scientific journal that described an expanding universe.  Two years later, Milton Humason and Edwin Hubble presented evidence to support support this model.  In this episode, we look at the development of the idea of a universe that was not static or steady.

William Crawley tells the story of Georges Lemaitre, the Catholic priest who originated the Big Bang theory.

À l'occasion du 80ème anniversaire de sa publication majeure sur le Big-Bang, cette soirée évoque la vie du chanoine Georges Lemaitre, son œuvre et son itinéraire, en soulignant plus particulièrement la conception que Lemaitre se faisait de la relation entre Cosmologie et Création. Invités : Marc Lachieze-Rey, directeur de recherche au CEA ; Dominique Lambert, professeur à l'université de Namur ; Valérie Paul-Boncour, directeur de recherche au CNRS. Enregistré au Collège des Bernardins le 6 octobre 2011.

Transcript: The man who first came up with the idea of the big bang was an unassuming Belgian priest called Georges Lemaitre. In 1929 he beat the giants of general relativity like Einstein to the punch by hypothesizing a universe derived from a cosmic singularity, “A day without a yesterday,” as he put it. This universe began infinitely small and infinitely curved and contained all matter and energy in a point, a singularity. Fred Hoyle, who supported the alternative theory of the steady state, disparaged this model and gave it the name big bang which stuck, and it’s used today to describe the current version of scientific belief in the origin of the universe. The big bang is based on the idea that the universe has not been the same but has evolved with time, and it’s also based on the idea of an origin event which forms a limit to our knowledge of the universe. Space and time both begin with the big bang.