Multiple choice

Who used the term 'Big Bang' for the first time?

  1. Sir Fred Hoyle

  2. Sir Michel Farady

  3. Sigmon Freud

  4. Loyd Cleved
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Explanation

Fred Hoyle coined the term 'Big Bang' during a 1949 radio broadcast as a pejorative description of the competing theory to his steady-state model. Despite his intent to mock the theory, the name stuck and became the standard terminology for the observable universe's expansion from an initial singularity.

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