2010/11/16 by V. G. Gurzadyan, Vahe Gurzadyan, Roger Penrose +3 · 1 voice · 60 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics #Big Bang (financial markets) #CMB cold spot #Concentric #Cosmic microwave background #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Economics #Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies #Geometry #History #Mathematics #Optics #Physics #Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics #astro-ph.CO #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1011.3706
published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · 8 pages, 6 figs
arxiv created 2010/11/16 · openalex publication_date 2010/11/16 · arxiv updated 2010/11/18 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) posits the existence of an aeon preceding our Big Bang 'B', whose conformal infinity 'I' is identified, conformally, with 'B', now regarded as a spacelike 3-surface. Black-hole encounters, within bound galactic clusters in that previous aeon, would have the observable effect, in our CMB sky, of families of concentric circles over which the temperature variance is anomalously low, the centre of each such family representing the point of 'I' at which the cluster converges. These centres appear as fairly randomly distributed fixed points in our CMB sky. The analysis of Wilkinson Microwave Background Probe's (WMAP) cosmic microwave background 7-year maps does indeed reveal such concentric circles, of up to 6σ significance. This is confirmed when the same analysis is applied to BOOMERanG98 data, eliminating the possibility of an instrumental cause for the effects. These observational predictions of CCC would not be easily explained within standard inflationary cosmology.