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If I were having a pint with Penrose, I'd take it a step crazier: what if the earlier universe is actually this one? And our universe ends up in a Big Bang, whi
by jnurmine 6y ago
If I were having a pint with Penrose, I'd take it a step crazier: what if the earlier universe is actually this one? And our universe ends up in a Big Bang, which begets a new universe, which is the one we are now in.
- mettamage 6y agoIf that's the case, then wouldn't we have some kind of special background radiation? Penrose stated that some things must be visible through background radiation right? (something with black holes of the preveious aeon) If that's the case, then we might be able to observe that state and try to workout, whether we get to that same state.
- simonh 6y agoThat would require that quantum states are not random, but repeat in a deterministic way.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoIt could be that the determinism exists outside where we're observing. Also it might not be a given that events unfold in the same order, in each iteration.
- WarOnPrivacy 6y agoI was wondering the same thing. Perhaps time isn't a paint smear but a shockwave in a sphere.
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- tiborsaas 6y agoAccording to CCC and to my understanding, it is sort of the case. The universe has undergone a "scale change" which marks the beginning of a new Epoch. It's explained in this PBS Space Time episode much better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2JOQ7z5L0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC2JOQ7z5L0