Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose

Cycles of Time by Roger Penrose

From Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, this groundbreaking book is for anyone "who is interested in the world, how it works, and how it got here" (New York Journal of Books).

Penrose presents a new perspective on three of cosmology's essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us?
 
He shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding universe--heat death or ultimate entropy--can actually be reinterpreted as the conditions that will begin a new "Big Bang." He details the basic principles beneath our universe, explaining various standard and non-standard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, the paramount significance of black holes, and other basic building blocks of contemporary physics. Intellectually thrilling and widely accessible, Cycles of Time is a welcome new contribution to our understanding of the universe from one of our greatest mathematicians and thinkers.

For his essential contributions to general relativity and cosmology, Roger Penrose, one of the world's best theoretical physicists, has received multiple awards, including the Albert Einstein Award. He co-wrote The Nature of Space and Time (Princeton) with Stephen Hawking, which became a best-seller. Cycles of Time: An Astonishing New Vision of the Universe and The Road to Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to the Rules of the Universe (both Vintage) are among Penrose's other works. He lives in Oxford, England, as the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Emeritus at the University of Oxford.