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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
A Note on the eBook
Preface
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Part 1. The Second Law and Its Underlying Mystery
1.1 The relentless march of randomness
1.2 Entropy, as state counting
1.3 Phase space, and Boltzmann’s definition of entropy
1.4 The robustness of the entropy concept
1.5 The inexorable increase of entropy into the future
1.6 Why is the past different?
Part 2. The Oddly Special Nature of the Big Bang
2.1 Our expanding universe
2.2 The ubiquitous microwave background
2.3 Space-time, null cones, metrics, conformal geometry
2.4 Black holes and space-time singularities
2.5 Conformal diagrams and conformal boundaries
2.6 Understanding the way the Big Bang was special
Part 3. Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
3.1 Connecting with infinity
3.2 The structure of CCC
3.3 Earlier pre-Big-Bang proposals
3.4 Squaring the Second Law
3.5 CCC and quantum gravity
3.6 Observational implications
Epilogue
Appendices
Notes
Index
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