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Old 30-June-2007, 08:33 PM
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The Big Bang was postulated decades prior to the observed Hubble expansion.*
My reading tells me that the Big Bang was invented by George Gamov in 1948. I got this from Wiki

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*If I am not mistaken, it was first suggested in 1927 by Georges Lemaître
He suggested 'the primordial atom', not quite the same thing.