Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: are actually moving apart Then in 1929 the eminent astronomer Edwin P Hubble showed that the rate galaxy is moving away from us is roughly proportional to its distance from US The existence of an expanding universe implies that the cosmos has evolved from dense concentration of matter into the present broadly spread distribution of galaxies. Fred Hoyle an English cosmologist, was the first to call this process the big bang Hoyle intended to disparage the theory, but the name was So catchy it gained popularity. Itis somewhat misleading however to describe the expansion as some type of explosion of matter away from some particular point in space That is not the picture at all: in Einstein's universe the concept of space and the distri ibution of matter are intimately linked; the observed exp ...
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