Lecture by Sir Roger Penrose

Selfie with Sir Roger Penrose

The auditorium of the University of Maastricht was fully loaded for the lecture of Sir Roger Penrose on "Can we see Hawking Points in the CMB sky?"

A dedicated search of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from Planck satellite data, driven by implications of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC), has revealed a remarkably strong signal (of confidence level greater than 99.98%), previously unobserved, of numerous anomalous highly energetic small regions in the CMB sky.

CCC proposes that our Big Bang was the (conformal) continuation of the remote future of a previous cosmic ‘aeon’ and that these anomalous regions would appear to be the result of individual points on CCC's crossover 3-surface from that previous aeon. They can be readily interpreted as the conformally compressed Hawking radiation from supermassive black holes in that aeon, but seem impossible to explain on the basis of the conventional inflationary picture of our very early universe.

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