2005-05-01

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2005-05-01 10:21 pm

People Who Were Not The First To Realise the Expansion of the Universe

-- Albert Einstein: Actually Einstein fudged his equations a bit, because they didn't work for a static universe. He was quite embarased when the expanding universe was announced.
-- Harold Shapley: Who did work showing the galaxy wasn't centered on the solar system
-- Maartin Schmidt: I only vaguly know who this is
-- Wilkinson and Penzais: Close -- these guys verified the Big Bang model over the Steady State model -- but they didn't discover it
-- Edmund Halley: Wrong century, and wrong field -- Haaley was more of a mathematician than an observer
-- William Herschel: Again, wrong century and field. William discovered Uranus. He wouldn't know a spectrum if one bit him.

I am finished grading tests. I got treated to the word astronomist.
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2005-05-01 11:02 pm