arXiv:2301.07198physics.hist-ph
Resurfaced 1964 VRT video interview of Georges Lemaître
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Abstract
On December 31 2022, the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie (VRT), the national public-service broadcaster for the Flemish Community of Belgium, recovered a video recording of a 1964 interview of Georges Lemaître. Up until now, that footage was thought to have been lost. This footage represents a unique insight into the views of the physicist often coined as the "father of the Big Bang". The interview was conducted in French and is available online with Flemish subtitles. In an effort to make this treasure broadly available, we provide in this paper some brief context, an English translation of the interview as well as the French transcript for reference.
Pretty great, I read the translation on arxiv.org[0] and he said that at the start of the universe there was only one or a few quanta. I'm not sure how much information you can encode in that, probably not much, I would guess a couple kilobytes max? What I think he's saying…
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