Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
by:
Roger Penrose (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307596741 (0307596745)
Publish date: September 6th 2011
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Unabridged. Read by Bruce Mann. 7hrs 22 minBig Bang or Steady State? Big Bang! however an organised Big Bang.The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases, because isolated systems spontaneously evolve towards thermodynamic equilibrium—the state of ma...
This book introduces Conformal Cyclic Cosmology: an amazingly beautiful idea, which I would love to be true. Unfortunately, the evidence to date is far from compelling. But, even if it isn't correct, Penrose is asking such interesting questions that the book is absolutely worth reading.So here's my ...
I'm not sure who the intended audience of this book is. It is not as technical as a scientific paper, but it is way more technical than a popular science book. Roger Penrose is clearly much more comfortable with linear algebra and tensor calculus than this reader.