Who First Proposed That the Observed Motion of Galaxies Away

question 138

Multiple Choice

Who first proposed that the observed motion of galaxies away from Earth originated as an expansion outward from an extremely dense state of matter at the beginning of the universe?

• A) Edwin Hubble
• B) George Gamow
• C) Fred Hoyle
• D) Georges Lemaître

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Coase Theorem

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