The Origin and Earliest Reception of Big-Bang Cosmology

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Oct 2008

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Publications of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, vol. 85, p. 7-16

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The basic idea of big-bang cosmology is that the universe came into being a finite time ago and since then developed into its present state. More or less scientifically based versions of this idea can be found in the nineteenth century, but it was only after Einstein's general theory of relativity that it became possible to speak of a dynamical universe in a full sense. Although mathematical models of a big-bang universe were included in Friedmann's theory of 1922, the true beginning of (physical) big-bang cosmology should be dated to 1931, when Lemaître suggested his picture of the primordial state of the universe as a giant atomic nucleus. This paper outlines the origin of the big-bang hypothesis and pays particular attention to the works of Lemaître. It also deals with the earliest reception of the hypothesis, but only up to the mid-1930s.

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