The father of the Big Bang Theory was a Catholic priest.

The Belgian astrophysicist Monsignor Georges Lemaître, who was also a Catholic priest, used Einstein’s general relativity equations to develop a model of the expanding universe. Monsignor Lemaître in the late 1920s theorized that if you have an expanding universe and you were to go back in time, you would get an ever shrinking universe. If you go back far enough in time that universe would get to an infinitesimally small point, a quantum. Father Lemaître called that point the “primeval atom” and from that atom, all matter, space, energy and time expanded creating the universe as we know it today. In 1931, Monsignor Lemaître published his theory involving the primeval atom model of the universe. His theory later developed into the Big Bang Theory.

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