Some topics remain taboo for science. When Georges Lemaître first proposed the Big Bang theory in the 1920s, there was a major backlash among many in the physics community — including Albert Einstein — who accused these physicists of importing a religious concept into science. The eminent British astronomer Fred Hoyle,…
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