With a beginning? Or eternal? Origins and controversies in cosmology in the middle of the last century
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https://doi.org/10.47456/Cad.Astro.v4n2.41623Keywords:
Big Bang, nucleosynthesis, steady state theory, George Gamow, Fred HoyleAbstract
A few years after the end of World War II, cosmology - a discipline then in search of respectability - was involved in a controversy regarding the question of whether (or not) the universe had an origin. In this article, we review that period, describing the main ideas and names of this unique event.
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