Penrose's idea of a conformal cyclic cosmology hypothesizes that our Universe arose from a pre-existing Universe that would leave imprints on our cosmos today. This is a fascinating and imaginative ...

READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them to be available, there must be something ...

In Conformal Cyclic Cosmology the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future timelike infinity of each previous iteration being identified with the Big Bang singularity of the next.

Roger Penrose has shared in the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution with models of Black Holes. Penrose has used the renewed attention to push his 30-year old concept of Hawking Points and ...

University of Oxford mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose won a Nobel Prize earlier this month for a lifetime of work studying black holes, singularities from which not even light can escape. Yet ...

In the years following his hugely successful book The Emperor’s New Mind, in which he argued that there is a quantum aspect to human consciousness, Roger Penrose has acquired a reputation among his ...

Hot spots: do the Planck CMB data contain evidence of a cyclical cosmology? (Courtesy: ESA and the Planck Collaboration) Unexpected hot spots in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) could have been ...

Alastair Wilson receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 757295), and from the ...

READER QUESTION: My understanding is that nothing comes from nothing. For something to exist, there must be material or a component available, and for them to be available, there must be something ...

“The Big Bang model begins with a point of infinite density where the laws of physics break down. This is a deep theoretical problem that suggests the beginning of the Universe is not fully understood ...