[ILS21R]

The circular patterns within the cosmic microwave background shown above 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".

Interesting. So how did the first cycle of "aeons" start?

[ConservativeDude]

sounds like The Magician’s Nephew to me....