A PRAYER FOR HAWKING

By the way, he was not the first to postulate the Big Bang theory, as some media have said, but the Belgian CATHOLIC PRIEST Georges Lemaître (1894 - 1966), who was also an astrophysicist and cosmologist. Father Lemaître elaborated the hypothesis that all the matter of the universe at the time of origin was concentrated in a primordial atom, a point of very high density whose explosion would have determined the beginning of the expansion and creation of matter.

Lemaître and Einstein