Back from vacation and wanted to talk about Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. Back in November, a group announced that they have possibly detected gravity waves from interacting black hole in a universe prior to ours. Here is the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3706 And their response to some of the criticism: http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.1486 BBC News announcement: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11837869 Physics World: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/44388 Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_Cyclic_Cosmology