Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

Penrose, Roger 1931-

ISBN 10: 0307265900 / ISBN 13: 9780307265906

Published by Borzoi Book/ Alfred A. Knopf, New York NY, 2011

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From the best-selling author and Nobel laureate, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmologys 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? Amazon. This copy is in excellent condition, a first printing hardback. The fine dustjacket is in clear mylar covering and the book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
• Publisher: Borzoi Book/ Alfred A. Knopf, New York NY
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307265900
• ISBN 13: 9780307265906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

From the best-selling author of The Emperor’s New Mind and The Road to Reality, a groundbreaking book that provides new views on three of cosmology’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 Penrose—one of the most innovative mathematicians of our time—turns around this predominant picture of the universe’s “heat death,” arguing how the expected ultimate fate of our accelerating, expanding universe can actually be reinterpreted as the “Big Bang” 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 physicist—with plenty of exciting insights for each—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.

About the Author

Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He has received numerous prizes and awards, most notably the Wolf Foundation Prize in physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking. He is the author of three previous books, including The Emperor’s New Mind. He lives in Oxford, England.