Cycles of Time An Extraordinary New View of the Universe

<p><b>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" (</b><i><b>New York Journal of Books).</b><br><br> </i>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? <br> <br>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, <i>Cycles of Time</i> is a welcome new contribution to our understanding of the universe from one of our greatest mathematicians and thinkers.<br><br></p>