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In 1924, American astronomer Hubble showed that our galaxy is not the only one. He calculated the distances between numerous galaxies, and in the process discovered the red shift—meaning light from distant galaxies was on the red end of the light spectrum, and as such must be moving away from us. In 1929 Hubble changed everyone’s understanding of the universe for good by revealing that the universe is expanding, and therefore that it could have all started off in one place—thus creating the idea of the big bang. This meant Einstein’s idea of a cosmological constant, or a kind of anti-gravity force, was inaccurate.
Edwin Hubble Quotes in A Brief History of Time
The A Brief History of Time quotes below are all either spoken by Edwin Hubble or refer to Edwin Hubble. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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It is an interesting reflection on the general climate of thought before the twentieth century that no one had suggested that the universe was expanding or contracting. [...] this may have been due to people’s tendency to believe in eternal truths, as well as the comfort they found in the thought that even though they may grow old and die, the universe is eternal and unchanging.
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Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion and gravity point to the fact the universe is expanding, or else it would be collapsing under its own gravitational force. Yet even Newton himself did not actually make the jump in logic to see that the universe must be expanding, instead wondering whether the universe was finite or infinite, and whether this would stop the universe from collapsing in on itself. Albert Einstein created the idea of a cosmological constant, a kind of anti-gravity force, to try to explain why the universe remained static despite its gravitational force. The fact that the universe Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in.
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Edwin Hubble Character Timeline in A Brief History of Time
The timeline below shows where the character Edwin Hubble appears in A Brief History of Time. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...much the same from both ends of the argument. That changed in 1929 when Edwin Hubble saw that all distant galaxies are moving rapidly away from each other. As such, at...
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Hubble’s discovery created the idea of the big bang, a time when the universe was tiny...
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Chapter 3
In 1924, Hubble defined our modern understanding of the universe when he showed that ours was not the...
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Hubble worked out distances to nine galaxies this way, showing how there are hundreds of thousands...
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As Hubble catalogued the galaxies and their distances from us, he found most galaxies were red-shifted, meaning...
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...the universe. This alone suggested the universe is not static, and he suggested it before Hubble's landmark discovery.
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...other point. The further away two points are, the faster they'll be expanding, just as Hubble found. But despite his accuracy, Friedmann's work was not known in the West until Howard...
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