This groundbreaking book 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? Penrose 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.
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..
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.
This groundbreaking book 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? Penrose 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
