How a Priest Discovered the Greatest Theory of All Time

How Georges Lemaître discovered the Big Bang Theory. Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom   / cindypom   Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Thank you to our Patrons, including Ronil Patel, Chesky Neceski, Austin Grant, Tom Eng, Tim Desir, Ryan Bresser, Neo Ge, Steven Bartlett, Will Lathrop Support us on Patreon:   / newsthink   Special thanks to the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) for supplying many of the photos of Lemaître found in this story https://uclouvain.be/en/index.html Sources: 0:59 Photo of university Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ 1:11 Belgian War Cross Fdutil, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons 4:50 Hubble paper: PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168 4:56 Red shift diagram: Georg Wiora (Dr. Schorsch) created this image from the original JPG.Derivative work:Kes47, CC BY-SA 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons 4:59 Hubble paper: PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/15/3/168 5:31 Lemaître’s paper translated into English: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in March 1931 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... 7:33 European Space Agency, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... via Wikimedia Commons