But, as far as I know, Penrose is not someone who seriously studies how whatever caused inflation and dark energy might be related. (And it's not like anyone who knows about general relativity, dark energy, and inflation hasn't thought that dark energy could lead to another inflationary epoch, and the only thing that would survive would be black holes. People seem to think science should be believed because smart people came up with it, when that's really not the point at all. I suppose it's a classic authority fallacy. The problem is that while other physicists recognize what he says as outlandish, unverifiable, and usually vague proposals, the people who don't understand the difference between an unproven hypothesis and a proven theory don't. In Penrose's defense, he seems to buy into the 'outlandish proposal' way of doing things. There is pretty good evidence for at least six of these points.' Sir Roger has recently published his theory of 'Hawking Points' in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. These points are about eight times the diameter of the Moon and are slightly warmed up regions. So our Big Bang began with something which was the remote future of a previous aeon and there would have been similar black holes evaporating away, via Hawking evaporation, and they would produce these points in the sky, that I call Hawking Points. We have a universe that expands and expands, and all mass decays away, and in this crazy theory of mine, that remote future becomes the Big Bang of another aeon. There was something before the Big Bang and that something is what we will have in our future. Speaking from his home in Oxford, Sir Roger said: 'I claim that there is observation of Hawking radiation. Sir Roger shared the World Prize in physics with Prof Hawking in 1988 for their work on black holes. If true, it would prove Hawking's theories were correct.

However, Sir Roger believes that 'dead' black holes from earlier universes or 'aeons' are observable now. The timescale for the complete evaporation of a black hole is huge, possibly longer than the age of our current universe, making them impossible to detect. They are named after Prof Stephen Hawking, who theorised that black holes 'leak' radiation and eventually evaporate away entirely. From a report: Sir Roger, 89, who won the honour for his seminal work proving that black holes exist, said he had found six 'warm' points in the sky (dubbed 'Hawking Points') which are around eight times the diameter of the Moon.

An earlier universe existed before the Big Bang and can still be observed today, Sir Roger Penrose has said, as he received the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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