Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
- an extraordinary new view of the universe from a leading thinker, Roger Penrose
From the best-selling author of The Emperorâ€™s New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmologyâ€™s most profound questions: What, if anything, came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? What is its ultimate future?

Current understanding of our universe dictates that all matter will eventually thin out to zero density, with huge black holes finally evaporating away into massless energy. Roger Penroseâ€”one of the most innovative mathematicians of our timeâ€”turns around this predominant picture of the universeâ€™s â€œheat death,â€ arguing how the expected ultimate fate of our accelerating, expanding universe can actually be reinterpreted as the â€œBig Bangâ€ of a new one.

Along the way to this remarkable cosmological picture, Penrose sheds new light on basic principles that underlie the behavior of our universe, describing various standard and nonstandard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, and the key status of black holes. Ideal for both the amateur astronomer and the advanced physicistâ€”with plenty of exciting insights for eachâ€”Cycles of Time is certain to provoke and challenge.

Intellectually thrilling and accessible, this is another essential guide to the universe from one of our preeminent thinkers.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2011-05-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307265906

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2011-05-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307265906

Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

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