Cycles of Time
Roger Penrose
- 01 mei 2012
- 9780307278463
Samenvatting:
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 cosmologys 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 universeheat death or ultimate entropycan 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.