Hawking's Youth (2004)-1

The scene where we meet Hoyle for the first time:

- Action!
The universe expands.
As galaxies move apart, new galaxies are formed
to fill the gaps left behind.
The new replaces the old at just the right rate.
Nothing changes.
Wherever you are in the universe; Andromeda,
Mars or Scarborough, it always looks the same.
Because it is the same.
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I want to do something significant.
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The universe is a steady state universe.
- It is very attractive, steady state, right?
- Cut! Thank you.
- And reassuring.
- Yes.
Maybe it's attractive because its reassuring.
Emotionally its far harder to conceive of a universe that's started,
a universe that hasn't always been around.
- Einstein?
- Look what he did when his work looked
like it was predicting there was a beginning to the universe.
He ran away from the prospect of a beginning.
Because he saw that the beginning would mean
a breakdown of all the laws of science.
How can science explain something that isn't there?
That's the thing about the idea of a Big Bang.
HOYLE:
The thing about the idea of a Big Bang
is that it's wrong. Irrational and wrong.
It's my term, Big Bang. I made it up.
Do you know why I called it that?
Because it sounds like a cartoon.
Big Bang theory is cartoon physics.
Dennis agrees, with me, don't you Dennis?
Lunch?
- The Pope was a Big Bang man.
- Because?
Because before the Big Bang, there was nothing!
No space, no time, no matter.
No science, no rules, which leaves room for guess who?
Lord God almighty.
Religion is the enemy of science, young man.
If Catholicism had its way, we would all still be living
on a flat Earth at the centre of the universe
with hell down below and heaven just somewhere
to the left of the moon.
This is 1963. God is dead.
Stay away from Big Bangs,
cartoons are bad for you.