# \#conformal-cyclic-cosmology

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## [Roger Penrose on Hawking Points in the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/roger-penrose-on-hawking-points-in-the-cosmic-microwave-background-radiation/2919)

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Roger Penrose’s theory of conformal cyclic cosmology, as described in his 2010 book Cycles of Time, attempts to explain the extraordinarily low entropy of the early universe by replacing cosmic inflation (wh…