Word: lema
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...students at Cambridge. Most of them were alraedy familiar with the facts behind the cosmic picture he drew. Dr. Einstein in his original relativity theory stated that space is curved by the matter it contains, that the size of the finite universe is dependent upon matter. Abbé Lemaître, Belgian mathematician, investigated Einstein's universe, found that it would be unstable, would necessarily either expand to infinity or contract to a point. Immediately astronomers looked at the stars, measured the amount of spectral shift in starlight (the Doppler effect). They found most starlight shifted towards...