Roger Penrose Tries to Answer: Why did the Universe Begin?
I'm sure that most of us wonder why we are here in this universe. Why does it exist, and why did it start. Will humans ever get an answer to this question, or does it even make sense to ask? I've always taken an avid fascination in astronomy and cosmology since childhood, although more lately I've focused much more on problems here on Earth. Nevertheless, I still wonder at these truths. It looks like now Nobel Prize winning physicist and mathematician Roger Penrose, offers an ingenious hypothesis. He proposes a cyclical view of the universe. Previously he would have said that the question of what happened before the big bang makes no sense since there was no time or space before then, and all of our equations go haywire, in other words, there is no before. Now he has a new idea, which depends on how the initial state of the universe is characterized. The early universe did not have a good scale of time. A bunch of particles evenly distributed, had no good scale of mass...