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