Cosmology, Astronomy, and Physics are personal interests of mine, and every once in a while I come across something truly amazing, weird, or sensational. This article may be in upper reaches of these appellations. If you cover the ‘pop’ aspects of these areas of endeavor, you are probably aware of the cosmic background noise. This is a later development…to potentially discern patterns in this ‘ether’ in such a manner as to be able to postulate that they may be shock waves from the previous incarnation of the universe (i.e. from before the big bang!).

This almost demands a Keanu Reeves quote (e.g. “whoa”).

Peering beyond the Big Bang to the Universe That Existed in the Aeon before Ours (A Galaxy Classic)
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/06/peering-beyond-the-big-bang-to-the-universe-that-existed-in-the-aeon-before-ours-a-galaxy-classic-1.html?%2BBeyond%29=

The circular patterns within the cosmic microwave background suggest that space and time did not come into being at the Big Bang, but that our universe in fact continually cycles through a series of "aeons," according to University of Oxford theoretical physicist Roger Penrose, who says that data collected by NASA’s WMAP satellite supports his idea of "conformal cyclic cosmology.”

Penrose’s finding runs directly counter to the widely accepted inflationary model of cosmology which states that the universe started from a point of infinite density known as the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago, expanded extremely rapidly for a fraction of a second and has continued to expand much more slowly ever since, during which time stars, planets and ultimately humans have emerged. That expansion is now believed to be accelerating due to a scientific X factor called dark energy and is expected to result in a cold, uniform, featureless universe.
Penrose, however, said Physics World, takes issue with the inflationary picture "and in particular believes it cannot account for the very low entropy state in which the universe was believed to have been born – an extremely high degree of order that made complex matter possible. He does not believe that space and time came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang but that the Big Bang was in fact just one in a series of many, with each big bang marking the start of a new "aeon" in the history of the universe.

The core concept in Penrose’s theory is the idea that in the very distant future the universe will in one sense become very similar to how it was at the Big Bang. Penrose says that "at these points the shape, or geometry, of the universe was and will be very smooth, in contrast to its current very jagged form. This continuity of shape, he maintains, will allow a transition from the end of the current aeon, when the universe will have expanded to become infinitely large, to the start of the next, when it once again becomes infinitesimally small and explodes outwards from the next big bang. Crucially, he says, the entropy at this transition stage will be extremely low, because black holes, which destroy all information that they suck in, evaporate as the universe expands and in so doing remove entropy from the universe."
The foundation for Penrose’s theory is found in the cosmic microwave background, the all-pervasive microwave radiation that was believed to have been created when the universe was just 300,000 years old and which tells us what conditions were like at that time.

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