Preview: This preview focuses on George Gamow's Soviet Unionescape. Gamow represented expanding universe (Big Bang), while Fred Hoyle represented static universe (Steady State). Non-religious and apolitical, Gamow drew the line when communists demanded sc

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Preview: This preview focuses on George Gamow's Soviet Unionescape. Gamow represented expanding universe (Big Bang), while Fred Hoyle represented static universe (Steady State). Non-religious and apolitical, Gamow drew the line when communists demanded science be interpreted through Marxist-Leninist philosophy. He attempted escaping with his wife via rubber kayak across the Black Sea to Turkey, but storms forced return. Niels Bohr secured their escape by arranging Gamow as Soviet representative to 1933 Solvayconference.
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0:21.6	Conversation with the author Paul Halpern from his book, Flashes of Creation,
0:26.6	George Gamoff, Fred Hoyle, and the Great Big Bang debate.
0:30.6	This is cosmology.
0:32.6	George Gamoff represented expanding universe.
0:36.6	Fred Hoyle represented static universe, fixed.
0:41.3	The debate in the 20th century.
0:43.7	However, here Paul Halpert gives us the lives of cosmologists,
0:48.3	Mrs. Fred Gamoff, who was trapped inside the Soviet Union.
0:52.9	Most of his adult life had a young wife,
0:56.3	and he needed to escape.
0:58.7	And Paul Halpern tells us why and how he did it.
1:04.0	And Niels Bohr, the place he plays,
1:07.4	you saw the movie Oppenheimer,
1:09.5	Boer was a treat, man of action, in addition to a major
1:16.2	piece of the cosmology debate in the 20th century. Here's Paul Halpern on George Gamoff's
1:24.5	escape with his wife, 1933, really happened. More of this tonight.
1:34.1	Gamov was generally apolitical and non-religious. He didn't like controversy. But at the same time,
1:42.2	he didn't like the communist regime because, precisely because it was so political.
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