Roger Penrose: 24 books

¿Qué influencias pueden tener la moda, la fe y la fantasía en las investigaciones científicas que buscan entender el comportamiento del universo? ¿Son los físicos teóricos inmunes a las tendencias, las creencias dogmáticas o los revoloteos fantásticos? Roger Penrose responde a estas...

Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory...

Una extraordinaria nueva visión del universo. La revolucionaria y exitosa obra de Roger Penrose El camino a la realidad presentaba una guía completa y comprensible de las leyes que rigen el universo desde nuestro conocimiento actual. En Ciclos del tiempo, su libro más ambicioso, Penrose...

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...

Un interesante y fascinante debate entre dos gigantes de la ciencia, Stephen Hawking y Roger Penrose, sobre el origen y el futuro del universo. Einstein afirmaba que lo más incomprensible acerca del universo es que es comprensible. ¿Estaba en lo cierto? ¿Pueden la teoría cuántica de campos...

Un apasionante paseo por la matemática y la física, y por los hallazgos del pensamiento humano. Durante décadas, los defensores de la inteligencia artificial han mantenido que los ordenadores harán pronto todo lo que la mente humana puede hacer. En su favor, se puede utilizar, por ejemplo,...

The Good Reverend Roger just wanted a vacation in exotic lands. He certainly never expected having trouble coming home, and when he goes to an underworld figure for help, things get a little out of hand. A short story about horror and mayhem in New Zealand.

For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics,...

Un libro definitivo e imprescindible para tener en la mano, en un solo volumen, todo el saber acumulado hasta la actualidad sobre el universo, el espacio, las leyes que lo rigen y los conceptos esenciales. El avance de la ciencia ha ido modificando radicalmente nuestra manera de comprender...

A few friends go out for some drinks in Tucson. Then Tucson happens, and soon federal law enforcement is required.

What happens when a police state gets so oppressive that the police themselves become targets? Justin and Kalera are homicide detectives trying to solve a grisly crime in the not-so-distant future, but fall afoul of the notorious Department of Social Mores. Before long, they find themselves on the wrong side of the law, hunted by secret police and their own fellow officers.

A breathtaking vision of a utopian future on Mars by one of science fiction’s most renowned authors In the middle decades of the twenty-first century, the corporate powers on Earth have established a thriving colony on Mars as an alternative to life on the overpopulated, war-torn, ecologically...

Frank and Ivan have been in Hell for 26 years, but they're doing okay. Then one day an angel shows up and tells them it's time to go to work. Tucson will never be the same.

Book one of the Little Orange Trilogy. After she falls out of Portland, Little Orange finds herself in a strange world of darkness and monsters. But where there are monsters, there are heroes. And if the heroes can't manage, then Little Orange will have to step up to the plate.