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[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Oh don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying he’s right. I just thought the objection was to the “restart bit”, and I thought that part reasonably followed if the earlier parts were accepted.

But Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology is pretty much the opposite of a Big Crunch.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

I guess I'll have to read up. I have potentially had a long running misunderstanding.