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.