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By Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine, April 6, 2024
Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of over thirty books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. …
[Editor’s Note: This is the eleventh in a multi-part series on the unsung heroes of Christendom.]
The history of science is filled with faithful Catholics who sought to discover more and more about God’s creation.
One of the most famous scientists of the twentieth century is Edwin Hubble, after whom the famous Hubble Space Telescope is named. He is also known for Hubble’s law, which states that galaxies are moving away from the Earth at speeds proportional to their distance. In other words, the farther a galaxy is from the Earth the faster it will be moving away from the Earth.
This law, confirmed by observational evidence, shows that the universe is expanding, and it is one of the proofs for the Big Bang theory. When discussing Hubble’s law, physicists also use terms such as the Hubble constant and Hubble time. ….
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