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

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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What Happens After That?

This is a mathematical way of representing the uniqueness of our particular rigbank statet. How how were things soa smooth and an ann orm at the very beginning? We can, we can put in this language, yes, it's a very nice mathematical way of describing,. well, two things, how do you talk about infinity? The other thing, how doYou talk about the very special condition on the big bang? It's not saying why it's like that. It's just saying, a nice way, mathematically, of saying, whereis what it is it's like? But is it what it is that it's like, and what it isthat it's like

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