Who rejected the Big Bang theory in favor of the "steady-state model"?
Stephen Hawking
Carl Sagan
James Clerk Maxwell
Fred Hoyle
Answer
Fred Hoyle was an English astronomer who proposed the steady-state model of the universe as an alternative to the Big Bang theory. He argued that the universe was infinite in size and that new matter was continually being created to fill the gaps between galaxies. The steady-state model was eventually disproved by observations of the expansion of the universe, but Hoyle's work helped to lay the foundation for modern cosmology.
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