Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Penrose, Roger

 
9780307265906: Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe [Lingua Inglese]
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ISBN 10: 0307265900 ISBN 13: 9780307265906
Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2011

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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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

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Editore
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2011
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0307265900
ISBN 13 
9780307265906
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
288
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  0307278468 ISBN 13:  9780307278463
Casa editrice: Vintage, 2012
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