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The Omega Point (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Big Crunch Is Out of Favor

The Big Crunch is out of favor because our default assumption was that eventually gravity would kick in against any inertia causing expansion of space, and this doesn't happen with dark energy. The Omega Point cosmology that followed later is just one example of the influence of that philosophy on science. And indeed we have modern versions like Roger Penrose's conformal sycocosmology, which we also cover briefly today.

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