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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Cosmic Microwave Background Could Decode Signals From Past Universes

The chances that when we look at the cosmic microwave background carefully enough we'll decode signals from previous universes? Well, it depends on who you ask because there's also this model by Roger Penrose. And whether or not there's been anything seen there is very controversial. Most most people say that there are weird little fluctuations, they're probably statistical noise. But it's possible as we keep examining the cosmic microwave back, we might see something that indicates some previous cycle or some kind of interaction with another kind of universe. There's also a model where you have little bubble universes that start through the inflation process and those bubbles could collide with each other and we could see a feature of that in the

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