Thank you, Dear Sister in Christ, for the "intellectual rescue"! I've just about reached "missile burnout"! LOL!
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"Circles"? (2-D, I presume.) In the CMB?
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Well, if Generals can see a Chinese sub launching ballistic missiles from LA in 14 seconds of chopped-up video of a UPS MD-11, I guess Penrose should be welcome to his bit of fancy... ;-)
Maybe it's because my mental processes are mostly 4-D visual, but I'd expect one who claimed he saw "circles" to be at least able to produce an image of a few -- maybe with an estimated radius or two... Guess I'll have to read farther to see if this is anything other than imagined patterning of the patternless.
OTOH, I wouldn't totally rule out our Lord, Who is the Master of Order using order in His processes of creation. With Him, of course, all is possible!!!
Thanks for the ping!!!!
Jokes about "2-D circles" aside, our present univrse is full of 3-D spherical "bubbles" which, viewed in section from any direction, present as circles.
There is even a long, linked "gallery" list of them available if you go here and use the "Search" function at he top of the page for "bubble"...
It would seem to me that any orb in unconstarined space-time will produce a spherical structure whenever it reaches the point where its internal energy is grater than its cohesion. (IOW, it "explodes"...)
However, I would expect entropy in those sort of events to be headedt he opposite direction of Penrose's supposed new "discoveries". (I don't doubt the discovery of something; I just have seen no evidence and no mathematics applied to it.)