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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 Evolution of Cosmology

I think that inflation, I would honestly give it a 50% chance of being part of the final answer. The argument is that think of the two ends of the universe. We have this future which seems to be dominated by this exponential expansion. And you've been working very recently on a new model of the universe on its super-largest scales. That's where we diverge. But so both of us are in the small band of people who've been trying to invent models of the universe...

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