Move Over, Hubble: Discovery of Expanding Cosmos Assigned to Little-Known Belgian Astronomer-Priest

Science ^ | 10/29/18 | Daniel Clery

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Hubble’s Law, a cornerstone of cosmology that describes the expanding universe, should now be called the Hubble-Lemaître Law, following a vote by the members of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), the same organization that revoked Pluto’s status as a planet. The change is designed to redress the historical neglect of Georges Lemaître, a Belgian astronomer and priest who in 1927 discovered the expanding universe—which also suggests a big bang. Lemaître published his ideas 2 years before U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble described his observations that galaxies farther from the Milky Way recede faster.

The final tally of the 4060 cast votes, announced today by IAU, was 78% in favor of the name change, 20% against, and 2% abstaining. But the vote was not without controversy, both in its execution and the historical facts it was based on. Helge Kragh, a historian of science at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, calls the background notes presented to IAU members “bad history.” Others argue it is not IAU’s job to rename physical laws. “It’s bad practice to retroactively change history,” says Matthias Steinmetz of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, Germany. “It never works.”

Piero Benvenuti of the University of Padua in Italy, who stepped down as IAU general secretary in August, proposed the change last year because, he says, “historically, it felt not right.” In 1927 Lemaître calculated a solution to Albert Einstein’s general relativity equations that indicated the universe could not be static but was instead expanding. He backed up that claim with a limited set of previously published measurements of the distances of galaxies and their velocities, calculated from their Doppler shifts. However, he published his results in French, in an obscure Belgian journal, and so they went largely unnoticed.

In 1929, Hubble published his own observations showing a......

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Nobody likes the winner, so all the other participants vote to disqualify him. America and Americans are usually the winners, and if not it’s probably a Brit. So the peon wannabe countries democratically mob us and try to take what is ours. They are the losers. They will always be the losers. They speak obscure languages, and they smell.

Look at all the “hard science” Nobel Prize awards: Nearly all of them has at least one person sharing it who is either American, or is working in America. Many of the Americans who win ask that they be recorded as being from the country they emigrated from, dissing the USA. There are so many dishonest losers.

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European scientists have been dreaming of a return to a Europe before WWI and WWII which had a unique bunch of never seen before eminent scientists. Fat chance of that when same scientists are socialistic and believe in global warming, let islam take over schools and culture and Hawkins reveres the atheism of Stalin and Hitler.

European idiots are grabbing back at straws instead of shaping up. Their heads are up their arses.

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America comprises 4% of the planet's population but we generate 15% of global GDP and have produced 40%+ of the Nobel laureates and 50%+ of the global equity market capitalization.

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