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

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

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The Trick of Squashing Down Infinity

i want to say in te emotior argument, othink how boring that is. You see, then i thought to myself, well, who's going to be bored by it? Not us. So we're about up here, so wea wet most of the way through it,. because the squashing squashes down the time as well as the space. And so that that infinite period of time is squashed down to e, a finite region in this picture. Now, that's the aeon the eon is infinite in this direction. But you squash it down and it makes a finite thing. So is is infinity. I'll come to aminute. In fact,

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