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Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Singularity Theorems

i had the original theorem that i had on black holls to show that singularities came about no matter how irregular irregular the collapse was. And then stephen hawking, in very first things he was in, picked up on this and applied these techniques to cosmolic cosmology situations. And so then we collaborated together and wrote a paper which compassed most of the results eventualy. That's a bit of a promose or bang back ovet also som mones, you see, wen quite relevant. But there is a sort of irony there too, because, em i was thinking then, why are we tinkig thinking about only these simple models? You see, with

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