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Does the universe cycle through eons, in which an infinite sequence of big bangs happen? How does Roger Penrose's conformal rescaling work and what does it have to do with entropy increase? I go through this in today's video.

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The paper I talk about at 7 mins 3 seconds about rings in the CMB is this:
https://link.springer.com/article/10....

The paper about Hawking Points that I mention at 7 mins 28 seconds is this:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.01740

The re-evaluation of Hawking Points in the CMB that I talk about at 7 mins 55 seconds is here:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

The paper about the past incompleteness of Steinhardt's cyclic cosmology which I refer to at 11 mins 20 seconds is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15380

0:00 Introduction
0:51 What is Conformal Cyclic Cosmology?
3:01 What is CCC good for?
5:00 What's with the physics?
9:25 What do I think about it?
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