I like Penrose a lot (beside some of his statements about the impossibility/difficulty of machine becoming aware).<div>I didn't read the book but I read some of his latest work on cosmology. The main discovery is that faint concentric rings were found in the pattern of hot and cold spot in the Cosmic Microwave Background. The interpretation of the presence of these rings is that the current universe is the rebound of a previous Big Crunch followed by a Big Bang. </div>
<div>The rings are a signature of events happened before the Big Bang.</div><div>Giovanni</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/8/14 Stefano Vaj <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stefano.vaj@gmail.com">stefano.vaj@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">2011/8/11 Dan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dan_ust@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
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<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Anyone here read _Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe_ by Roger Penrose?</div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br>Can't say that I like him much, but I curious of what extraordinary new view he may have now on the universe, so thank for point it out... <br></div></div><br>-- <br><font color="#888888">Stefano Vaj<br>
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