Michelle Thaller

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2506 - Michelle Thaller · 28 May 2026 podcast

It was actually a Belgian Jesuit father, a Belgian priest named Georges Lemaitre, who came up with the idea that if the universe was expanding now, if we run time backwards, maybe it all becomes one big, he called it the primordial atom.

That was Georges Lemaitre.

What year was this?

George Lemaitre.

So we would have been talking around about probably sometime in the 1920s.

I bet we could probably have some help.

Yeah, 100 years ago.

So George Lemaitre says if we run time backwards, we get this big lump of something, the primordial atom.

And then Fred Hoyle said, what, you mean the whole universe started with a big bang?

You know, really?

There was this big, there was this atom that went bang?

So even the term the big bang was meant as a criticism.

It was meant to be funny.

It wasn't something that scientists came up with as the best description.

But what happened then is everybody kind of nodded and said, well, yeah.

I mean, more people should know about Georges Lemaître, the Jesuit Belgian scientist that came up with that idea.

I think he was a fascinating man.

Interestingly enough, even as a Jesuit, he did not think that this necessarily was a biblical Genesis story.

I mean, he was approaching this as a scientist.

What's the best thing we can say to describe these different times and states of the universe?

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