https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1301.0219/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11645660urn:hackerpapers:mention:1301.0219:11645660Fri, 06 May 2016 18:15:51 GMT<p>The cosmological Lemaître- Eddington model later became knick named &quot;big bang&quot; by Frederick Hoyle later, who apparently was reluctant to &quot;believe&quot; that the universe had a beginning point. It&#x27;s commonly speculated that many of the physics community at that time disliked the idea as a statically existing universe was in vogue and that Lemaître was a Catholic priest caused Hoyle and others to deride the model as a &quot;big bang&quot; (with an underlying assumption that Lemaître assumed that God was the originator of why the expansion happened, see [1] pg 6). It&#x27;s a bit unclear as to the exact thoughts of…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1301.0219/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.hist-ph