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En 1931, dans un court article dans la revue Nature, Georges Lemaître proposa que toute la matière présente dans l’univers physique provienne de la pulvérisation de l’atome primitif. Le concept de l’atome primitif fut l’embryon de la théorie du big bang, reprise par d’autres cosmologistes et savamment développée durant la seconde moitié du xxe siècle. L’hypothèse de l’atome primitif : essai de cosmogonie, une série de conférences données entre 1929 et 1945 par Georges Lemaître, fut publié en 1946. Lus aujourd’hui, les textes de ces conférences dressent un tableau de la naissance de la cosmologie moderne. L’ensemble reflète l’évolution rapide des connaissances en astronomie et en physique nucléaire durant la période mouvementée des années 1930 et 1940. De plus, le propos de Lemaître est éloquent par sa finesse pédagogique. Ce petit livre offre un exceptionnel portrait des idées en astronomie et en cosmologie et de leur évolution entre les années 1920 et 1950. Vous assisterez en le lisant à la naissance du big bang.
Big bang theory --- Astronomy - History --- Cosmology - History --- Big bang theory. --- Astronomy --- Cosmology --- History. --- Big bang cosmology --- Superdense theory --- Cosmogony --- Expanding universe
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This book presents the first translation into English of the treatise The Physics of Einstein completed by the young Georges Lemaître in 1922, only six years after the publication of Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. It includes a historical introduction and a historical critical edition of the original treatise in French supplemented by the author’s own later additions and corrections. Monsignor Georges Lemaître can be considered the founder of the “Big Bang Theory” and a visionary architect of modern Cosmology. The scientific community is only beginning to take in the full measure of the legacy of this towering figure of 20th century physics. Against the best advice of the great names of his day, the young Lemaître was convinced, solely through the study of Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, that space and time must have had a beginning with a tremendous “Big Bang” from a “quantum primeval atom” that produced an ever-expanding Universe with a positive cosmological constant. But how did the young Lemaître, essentially on his own, come to grips with the physics of Einstein? A year before his ordination as a diocesan priest, the young Lemaître submitted an audacious dissertation that was to earn him Fellowships to study at Cambridge, MIT and Harvard, and launched him on a scientific path of ground-breaking discoveries. Almost a century after Lemaître’s seminal publications of 1927 and 1931, this highly pedagogical treatise is still of timely interest to young minds and remains of great value from a history of science perspective. The original French manuscript as well as the recently discovered additions are preserved in the Georges Lemaître Archives at l’Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
General relativity (Physics) --- Relativistic theory of gravitation --- Relativity theory, General --- Gravitation --- Physics --- Relativity (Physics) --- Gravitation. --- Physics. --- Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Field theory (Physics) --- Matter --- Antigravity --- Centrifugal force --- Properties --- Einstein, Albert, - 1879-1955
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