Apparently their idea also has external consistency with measurements.
Gurzadyan and Penrose are saying that there is observational evidence for a particular cosmological model known as Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC). Specifically, the evidence comes from measurements gathered by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) (a satellite) and Boomerang '98 (a balloon flight above Antarctica in 1998, which also measured temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background).
Specifically, they claim to see the signatures of supermassive black hole encounters in the aeon prior to the Big Bang - these show up as families of concentric circles over which the temperature variance is anomalously low in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
Of course, other cosmological models might also be consistent with the measurements they cite.
Comments
Apparently their idea also has external consistency with measurements.
Gurzadyan and Penrose are saying that there is observational evidence for a particular cosmological model known as Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC). Specifically, the evidence comes from measurements gathered by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) (a satellite) and Boomerang '98 (a balloon flight above Antarctica in 1998, which also measured temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background).
Specifically, they claim to see the signatures of supermassive black hole encounters in the aeon prior to the Big Bang - these show up as families of concentric circles over which the temperature variance is anomalously low in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
Of course, other cosmological models might also be consistent with the measurements they cite.
The only consistency that exists with measurements is that theories are formulated as a potential interpretation of them.
So, back to my original hypothesis..