resulting exponential expansion of that earlier aeon would bear a tantalizing similarity to the supposed inflationary phase of the currently favoured picture of the very early history of the universe, although this currently conventional picture has the exponential expansion taking place between around 10–36 s and 10–32 s in our own aeon (see §2.1, §2.6), closely following the Big Bang itself. On the other hand, CCC would place this ‘inflationary phase’ before the Big Bang, identifying it with the exponential expansion of the remote future of the previous aeon.
