cyclic universe – Uncommon Descent

The ever-cycling universe cycles back to town

Rob Sheldon: What is really recycling is not the universe, but this theory.

Cosmology Intelligent Design Naturalism Physics

How Roger Penrose proposes that the universe can be eternal

For all practical purposes. From the author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, at her blog BackRe(Action) According to Penrose’s conformal cyclic cosmology, the universe goes through an infinite series of “aeons,” each of which starts with a phase resembling a big bang, then forming galactic structures as usual, then cooling down as Read More…

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