Roger Penrose, “The Cyclic Universe” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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Is There Such a Thing as a Big Bang?
Physicists are so convinced that there is such a big bang, maybe there isn't a big bang. You mentiond the noba prize, and you mentioned the micro wave backgrond radiation. How how does that link up to our conviction that there issuch a thing as a big bang? Well, i guess it's consistent with the picture that there should be such radiation. Is consistent with the idea of this extremely hot state in the beginning. And low and behold, we find that this radiation has this thermal character to a enormous precision. T it agrees with this max plank, crde mentiond g earli thing to a fantastic degree,. much better than any could produce in
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