CYCLES OF TIME: AN EXTRAORDINARY NEW VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE FREE DOWNLOAD Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics Roger Penrose | 288 pages | 01 May 2012 | Random House USA Inc | 9780307278463 | English | New York, United States Cycles of Time In summary, all particles must lose their mass e. Jun 08, Garrett Haynes rated it really liked it. Friend Reviews. You know the saying: There's no time like the present I usually don't mind skim-reading the deeply technical parts and I can still appreciate a book where the author tells you what it all means in plain english. Every book and video takes me further down the path of understanding what physics is and how our universe is set up. This book is meant to be a popular science account of Penrose's Conformal cyclic cosmologywhich theorizes that these are not the fundamental bookends to our cosmology. There are many other reviews out there, so I'll just add this snippet. Stephen Hawking. I truly have a much better time trying to wrap my puny little brain around the string theories more. In addition, Chapter 2 is wonderful crash-course in special and general relativity. Community Reviews. Together with his father, a physicist and mathematician, Penrose went on to design a staircase that simultaneously loops up and down. Other Editions As a computer programmer, I have no problem whatsoever accepting this boundary condition. I really tried, and I kept trying because I think the idea is flawless. Why is it worth the work? The first has to do with the nature of the boundary between the universes. Penrose should have added another chapter devoted to explaining how CCC, in conjunction with other cherry-picked GR cosmological models, might work during crossover, and not just how it works or looks geometrically. Penrose relies a lot on figures throughout the book. Here some really quite in-depth knowledge of quantum mechanics and particle physics would not go amiss. While I have previously encountered null A personal Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe to Roger Penrose: Dear Sir: You finally gave me an answer for what really happens at the end of time. I think is a book fulfilled of innovative ideas and surronded by a fresh phylosophy, it's what I wanted from such a book. The notion that all the space and mass in the universe can shrink down to a microscopic point to begin anew with another Big Bang was so counter-intuitive that I, like most laymen listening to TV cosmologists on public television, was not convinced that this could happen in real life. The Accidental Universe. The instant after the big bang, "a wildly hot violent event", must have been one of maximum entropy. So much so that you probably don't need to read the book, you could just read a summary of Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe argument and understand it. May 03, Minutes Buy. This evaporation process, he suggests, will actually reduce entropy violating what scientists hold to be quite a robust law of our universe. I have a hard time imagining who the intended audience is. Still, for all that this text tried to convince me of an old theory that may or may not be quite up to date, it's still a fun read. A great companion to this book? The Dialogues. Other editions. Jul 26, Christopher rated it liked it Shelves: nonfiction. Roger Penrose. A treatise on information theory or refer to the founding of information theory - Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication". The extension is not supposed to have any physical meaning! Views Read Edit View history. Usually popular science books written for the layperson introduce us to established science or summarize a new field. Many of his explanations in these manners are hand-wavy. Kirkus Reviews. I saw a lecture of his where he tried to explain twistor theory to a visiting audience, and he kept going on lengthy tangents involving math that would probably need an undergraduate degree in physics to grasp fully. Goodreads Librari That if we see before us a well ordered universe, with a well ordered beginning, then the most logical explanation is that is what set in order. For some reason, certain physicists seem to think it a problem. Welcome back. Penrose cites concentric rings found in the WMAP cosmic microwave background survey as preliminary evidence for his model, as he predicted black hole collisions from the previous aeon Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe leave such structures due to ripples of gravitational waves. This is known as general covariance or diffeomorphism. Is that the book's fault? Essentially at least what I could grasp from it there are some particles that are able to cross the boundary without hindrance and some that are not this all has to do with conformally invariant quantum theory, something that I do not understand in the slightest. This period from Big Bang to infinite expansion Penrose defines as an aeon. As ever This book introduces Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe Cyclic Cosmology: an amazingly beautiful idea, which I would love to be true. Looking for More Great Reads? The Ascension Mysteries. Picked this off the 'in' shelf at the library. Release Date:. See 1 question about Cycles of Time…. I imagine all the 5 star readers in this list are either physicists, liars, or possibly a room full of bubbling brain jars wired in series. Books by Roger Penrose. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. I wonder Anton Vamplew. Equivalently, perpetual motion machines of the second kind are impossible. You need some serious background in physics and mathematics to even start to understand what he's on about. Traditionally such questions have been dismissed as meaningless — space and time were created at the big bang; there simply was no "before". I tried. .