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SUMMARY:Cosmology: Before the Beginning and Beyond Eternity - Professor Ro
 ger Penrose
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CONTACT:Patrick Szmucer
DESCRIPTION:"A recent theory\, conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC)\, proposes
  that what we presently regard as the entire history of our universe is me
 rely one phase (an “aeon”) of an infinite succession of similar aeons.
  The ultimate expansion of each aeon\, according to the theory\, appears a
 s the big bang of the next. Collisions between supermassive black holes in
  the aeon prior to ours would have left an observable imprint on our cosmi
 c microwave background — imprints which have apparently already been det
 ected by WMAP and Planck space satellites. Recent claims that south-pole t
 elescope observations provide the “smoking gun” of an inflationary beg
 inning to our universe’s expansion are disputed\, as CCC provides an alt
 ernative explanation with intriguing consequences..."
LOCATION:Mill Lane Room 3
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