Seeing Through the Big Bang into Another World - Professor Sir Roger Penrose

The Annual Lewis Elton Lecture - 2012 According to currently standard cosmology, the universe started with a Big Bang, immediately followed by a fleeting moment of exponential expansion, called “inflation“. Following this it settled down to a more sedate expansion, but due to what is called “dark energy“, it is currently commencing a second period of exponential expansion that is expected to continue indefinitely. In this talk I describe an alternative idea, which argues that this picture provides me