Roger Penrose

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And I didn't like it, you see.

At that time I thought it should be zero.

From some

idea to do with Swiss theory.

And I wanted to try and it had a solution to what I call the googly problem.

And the solution depended on it being null.

Infinity being null, so I have zero cosmological constants.

And that was my idea.

And I remember going into dinner.

And I said, Surely this uh redshift

But these dust could be dust, as some people were saying.

And he said, No, no, that doesn't work.

It's not just that.

It fits so well in all sorts of things and they've come together so well if you have a positive cosmological constant.

So I changed my mind.

Said okay.

Well, had to get used to the idea.

I'm glad I did.

Because the whole idea of C C C depends on the cosmological constant being positive.

Absolutely, you've got to have a space like infinity.

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