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What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers

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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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By the author of "The Emperor's New Mind", this is an exploration of what modern physics has to tell us about the mind, and a visionary description of what a new physics might look like. It is also a speculation on the biological process that makes consciousness what it is.

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In a single work of colossal scope one of the world's greatest scientists has given us a complete and unrivalled guide to the glories of the universe that we all inhabit.

'Roger Penrose is the most important physicist to work in relativity theory except for Einstein.