From the Archives of Louvain
Some new findings in the Lemaître/Hubble debate. At my Forbes blog.
Some new findings in the Lemaître/Hubble debate. At my Forbes blog.
In my 2005 biography of Georges Lemaître, I argued that Hubble’s Law should have been called Lemaître’s Law, as he derived the linear velocity-distance relation between galaxies two years before Hubble did. (That bastard.) Turns out, there was more going on behind the scenes at the time than people realized.
I discuss a fascinating new paper by Owen Gingerich and Albert van Helden at Forbes.
My first post at Huffington. Going to try and get something up regularly if possible.
The inimitable Thony C. corrects PZ Myers’ abysmal knowledge of history: The three periods of ‘lift’ that he identifies were anything but periods of secular thought. Contrary to the popular claims about logos replacing mythos in ancient Greece and this being the reason for the birth of Greek science, if you actually look at the… Continue reading History for Squid Lovers