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- George Lemhjatre
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- 1894-1966
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- Lemhjatre or Lemitre was the first to appreciate the poss-
- ibility of a singularity as t -> o and to attempt to
- assign physical significance to this. He postulated that
- the Universe began as a single "primeval atom" - which he
- supposed to undergo disintegration by cosmic radioactivity.
- Lemhjatre wrote in his 1946 essay, The Primeval Atom,
- "if matter existed as a single atomic nucleus, it makes no
- sense to speak of space and time in connection with this
- atom. Space and time are statistical notions which apply to
- an assembly of a great number of individual elements. They
- were meaningless notions at the instant of first disinte-
- gration of the primeval atom."
- Lemhjatre was the first to attempt to contend with the
- notion of a singularity of space-time. As t -> o, the
- beginning, the primeval atom, and the meaninglessness
- of time and space were one.
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