Com início? Ou eterno? Origens e controvérsias na cosmologia em meados do século passado

Antônio Augusto Passos Videira, Cássio Leite Vieira

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Abstract

A few years after the end of World War II, cosmology – a discipline then in search of respectability – wasinvolved 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.
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)112-119
Number of pages8
JournalCadernos de Astronomia
Volume4
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Sept 2023
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Big bang
  • Nucleosynthesis
  • Steady state theory
  • George Gamow
  • Fred Hoyle

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