The cyclic universe : a conversation with Sir Roger Penrose / Open Agenda Publishing.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Penrose, Roger, interviewee.

Burton, Howard, 1965- interviewer.

Niblo, Andrew, editor.

Thomas, Shafton, musician.

Open Agenda Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Ideas Roadshow

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penrose, Roger--Interviews.

Penrose, Roger.

Cyclic universe theory (Cosmology).

Big bang theory.

Cosmology.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Interviews.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Toronto, Ontario] : Open Agenda Publishing, [2013]

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC, Region 1.

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Roger Penrose is convinced that there is one fundamental problem that is consistently being overlooked in modern cosmological approaches: why did our universe begin in such a particular state of extremely low entropy? His Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (CCC) is an attempt to directly address that question, and a good deal more besides.

Contents:

Introduction and basic concepts

The Big Bang entropy mystery

Including gravity

Dark matter, dark energy, and CCC

What inflation doesn't explain

Conformal tricks : another way to talk about infinity and our special Big Bang state

Adding some physics : black holes

Photons vs. massive particles : conformal vs. metric geometry

Mass at the Big Bang

But how is this physics? Where does the mass go?

Dark matter and dark energy in the CCC

What about the second law?

Experimental tests

Theoretical concerns

Popular books and sociological musings.

Participant:

Host, Howard Burton.

Credits:

Editor, Andrew Niblo; music, Shafton Thomas.

Notes:

Videodisc release of the documentary motion picture produced in 2013.

Aspect ratio 16:9.

OCLC:

919167333