Roger Penrose

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Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal · Roger Penrose: Why The Big Bang Was Not The Beginning · 3 Nov 2025 podcast

And this is well known to people.

But nobody trusted it for the very good reason.

That this assumes exact spherical symmetric s symmetry.

So that you might think that if it's not sym symmetrical, it would get more and more complicated as it collapses, and then it might sw swirl round and come swishing out again.

So I think that was the common view at the time.

That although I

Oh.

Oppenheimer Snyder was well known.

It didn't.

It seemed to represent reality in people too.

Which is a reasonable point of view, I think.

And I didn't know what the answer was.

There had been a paper at the time written by Lifch and Kalatnikov, two Russians, which

And they seem to have proved that

that in the general case you would not get singularities.

And

I looked at the paper, I didn't sort of go into it very hard.

I thought the techniques they were using w were not likely to be trustworthy.

I didn't see the mistake in the paper, there was a serious error in the paper.

Which was later found by Belinsky, I think, who

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