Georges Lemaître and technology subjects in the December 1932 issue of Popular Science. Lemaître himself also described his theory as "the Cosmic Egg exploding at the moment of the creation"; it became better known as the "Big Bang theory," a pejorative term coined during a 1949 BBC radio broadcast by the astronomer Fred Hoyle, who was then still a proponent of the steady state universe and remained so until his death in 2001. Lemaître's proposal met with skepticism from his fellow scientists. Eddington found Lemaître's notion unpleasant. Einstein thought it unjustifiable from a physical point of view, although he encouraged Lemaître to
The Big Bang (Doctor Who) to do so by the Doctor travelling back in time once he's escaped.", though Martin in "The Guardian" excused this paradox due to the episode being set "in the eye of the storm as history collapses [and so] ... hardly working to the same rulebook". Along with "The Pandorica Opens", "The Big Bang" was awarded the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form), the fifth time "Doctor Who" has won the award, and the fourth time a Steven Moffat episode has won. In February 2013, Moffat stated that "The Big Bang" was his personal favourite among the "Doctor Who"