Cycles of Time
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Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose
Develops a fresh perspective on cosmology, providing an answer to the often-asked question, 'what came before the Big Bang'? This title presents an analysis the Second Law of thermodynamics - according to which the 'randomness' of our world is continually increasing - and an examination of the light-cone geometry of space-time.
A genuinely new idea about the origins of the universe [..] must be taken seriously * Scotsman *
As uncondescending in style as his previous books...many pleasures to be had along the way * Sunday Times *
Thought-provoking, edifying * Sky At Night Magazine *
Cycles of Time can be highly recommended as an example of how cosmologists are now thinking the unthinkable * Literary Review *
Destined to be another bestseller -- Manjit Kumar, author of Quantum * Guardian *
As uncondescending in style as his previous books...many pleasures to be had along the way * Sunday Times *
Thought-provoking, edifying * Sky At Night Magazine *
Cycles of Time can be highly recommended as an example of how cosmologists are now thinking the unthinkable * Literary Review *
Destined to be another bestseller -- Manjit Kumar, author of Quantum * Guardian *
Roger Penrose is one the world's foremost theoretical physicists, and the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020. He has won numerous other prizes, including the Albert Einstein Medal, for his fundamental contributions to general relativity and cosmology.
He is the bestselling author of The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe and Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe. His other books include Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind and, with Stephen Hawking, The Nature of Space and Time. He is the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford, and lives in Oxford.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780224080361 |
| ISBN 10 | 0224080369 |
| Title | Cycles of Time |
| Author | Roger Penrose |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2010-09-23 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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