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28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe

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

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The Conformal Cyclic Cosmology of Our Universe

Our universe has an infinite number presumably of cycles. You might as well go from Big Bang to stuff like us to the future and then repeats. The idea is that our Big Bang was the conformal infinity of a previous eon. So it's remote future, conformally, smoothly fits on to our Big Bang. One of the exciting aspects is it might be observationally testable.

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