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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Hubble discovered that nearly everything in our sky (stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, etc.) seems to be receding away from us. This led to the expanding universe theory, and the Big bang Theory, which have been fairly well confirmed.
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I'm pretty sure that this is false, Rob. I can't give you the name of the man who realized (or helped realize) that the universe was expanding, but he used the Doppler effect but with light, noting that many galaxies had a red light shift. It is in an episode of Cosmos with Carl Sagan, but I've let my dvds to a friend, so I can't check it now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM_4w...e=channel_page
Go to about 1:20 and then I think that shows it all...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_L._Humason