[cripplecreek]

Monseigneur Georges Lemaître was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Université catholique de Louvain. He was the first known academic to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. Lemaître also proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his ‘hypothesis of the primeval atom or the “Cosmic Egg”.

[Charles Martel]

“Cosmic Egg” sounds a lot like something that Gary Larson would’ve referenced in “The Far Side”... along with the obligatory “Cosmic Chicken”.

[sharkhawk]

Monseigneur Georges Lemaître was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Université catholique de Louvain. He was the first known academic to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble. Lemaître also proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, which he called his ‘hypothesis of the primeval atom or the “Cosmic Egg”.

And his contemporaries derided the theory as nuts, because it conformed to the Genesis story. I love the Big Bang Theory for this reason.