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Why physics Nobelist Roger Penrose believes there are black holes left over from previous universes – Salon
Physics Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose has an odd theory about the universe — and there’s even evidence for it
University of Oxford mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose won a Nobel Prize earlier this month for a lifetime of work studying black holes, singularities from which not even light can escape. Yet he is also behind a provocative and controversial theory about the formation of the universe — namely, that the Big Bang did not mark the beginning of the universe as we know it, but merely started the next iteration of our universe. In his theory, known as conformal cyclic cosmology, our current co…
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