Physics to God

Author: Aaron Zimmer and Elie Feder

Physics to God is a guided journey through modern physics to discover God. We start from the fine tuning of the constants of nature, travel through the multiverse, and ultimately arrive at a compelling idea of God.
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Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) - S2:E16
Episode 16
Sunday, 9 March, 2025

This episode examines physicist Roger Penrose's extremely wild and imaginative theory for explaining the ridiculously improbable order of the Big Bang without invoking an intelligent cause. Penrose describes the tremendous problem of explaining the unlikely Big Bang as follows: In order to produce a universe resembling the one in which we live, the Creator would have to aim for an absurdly tiny volume of the phase space of possible universes – about 1/10^10^123 of the entire volume...This is an extraordinary figure. One could not possibly even write the number down in full... When Penrose speaks about the Creator, he means it metaphorically, as he doesn’t believe in God. This episode shows how Penrose’s theory - Conformal Cyclic Cosmology - attempts to explain the improbable order of the Big Bang without an intelligent Creator, and ultimately justifies why we think the argument for an intelligent cause still stands. Timestamps: 0:00 - Opening 2:02 - Introduction 3:32 - Conformal Cyclic Cosmology 8:16 - The Universe Loses Track of Time…. 13:56 - Disappearance of Mass 20:36 - Hawking Radiation and Entropy Transcendence 25:54 - Evaluation Conformal Cyclic Cosmology 30:10 - Outro Get essay versions of all episodes in Season 1: Intelligent Cause and Season 2: Analyzing & Rejecting Multiverse Subscribe to Physics to God on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Follow us at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089972838595 X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/PhysicsToGod Instagram: https://instagram.com/physics_to_god