Alexander Friedmann proposed models of the universe based on the idea it is uniform on a large scale and as such should look uniform from any given point. From his work came a variety of different Friedmann models, proposed by many different scientists, which offer suggestions as to the birth and development of the universe on the basis of general relativity.
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Chapter 3
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Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.)
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Chapter 3
All the Friedmann models start out with a beginning where the space between everything was zero—the universe was infinitely...
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Chapter 8
But first, one should understand the “hot big bang model.” This model is a Friedmann model , in which matter cools as the universe expands, meaning the matter has less energy....
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