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In reply to the discussion: UFOs exist and everyone needs to adjust to that fact [View all]anarch
(6,535 posts)promulgated by Roger Penrose...I only fairly recently learned of the concept; it resolves a great many of the issues that the Big Bang theory has--not least the "inflationary epoch" wherein in the BB theory, for some vaguely described reason the expansion rate of the universe increased exponentially for a period after the grand unification epoch, and associated with the separation of the strong force from the other fundamental/known forces. Anyway, if you haven't looked into it, it's interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_cyclic_cosmology
The whole inflationary theory always struck me as something that someone came up with because the math didn't make sense without it, but there are a lot of things that don't make sense about it.