Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe - What Came Before the Big Bang ?

Informationen zum Autor Roger Penrose Klappentext What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? This book illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. It analyses the second law of thermodynamics - according to which the 'randomness' of our world is continually increasing - and examines the light-cone geometry of space-time. Zusammenfassung What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe begin and must it inevitably end? This book illuminates some of the deepest mysteries of the universe. It analyses the second law of thermodynamics - according to which the 'randomness' of our world is continually increasing - and examines the light-cone geometry of space-time.

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• Authors: Roger Penrose, Penrose Roger
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780099505945
• ISBN: 978-0-09-950594-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Astronomy; SCIENCE / Time, Astrophysics, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Thermodynamics & heat, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, Thermodynamics and heat