Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) - S2:E16

This episode examines physicist Roger Penrose's extremely wild and imaginative theory for explaining the ridiculously improbable order of the Big Bang without invoking an intelligent cause. Penrose describes the tremendous problem of explaining the unlikely Big Bang as follows:

In order to produce a universe resembling the one in which we live, the Creator would have to aim for an absurdly tiny volume of the phase space of possible universes – about 1/10^10^123 of the entire volume...This is an extraordinary figure. One could not possibly even write the number down in full...

When Penrose speaks about the Creator, he means it metaphorically, as he doesn’t believe in God. This episode shows how Penrose’s theory - Conformal Cyclic Cosmology - attempts to explain the improbable order of the Big Bang without an intelligent Creator, and ultimately justifies why we think the argument for an intelligent cause still stands.

Timestamps:

0:00 - Opening

1:54 - Introduction

3:10 - Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

7:14 - The Universe Loses Track of Time….

12:09 - Disappearance of Mass

17:49 - Hawking Radiation and Entropy Transcendence

22:23 - Evaluating Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

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