MCQ
Who proposed 'Big Bang hypothesis'?
  • A
    C. Darwin
  • B
    G. Lemaitre
  • C
    S. Miller
  • D
    S. Prusiner

Answer

  1. G. Lemaitre

Explanation:

Georges Lamaitre was a Belgian priest, astronomer and a professor of physics. He is considered the father of the Big Bang theory. According to the theory, the expansion of the observable universe began with an explosion of a single particle at a definite point in time.

Earlier versions of the 'Big Bang theory' had the universe originating from a singularity, this has been replaced by the idea that the universe originated from literally nothing at all.

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