INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Most appealing... technical accuracy and lightness of tone... Impeccable.”—Wall Street Journal “A porthole into anoth

Entropy is commonly interpreted as a measure of disorder. This interpretation has caused a great amount of "disorder" in the literature.This book explains what

The aim of this book is to explain in simple language what we know and what we do not know about information and entropy -- two of the most frequently discussed

This is a provocative account of the astounding new answers to the most basic philosophical question: Where did the universe come from and how will it end?

'Highly recommended' Financial Times Today we know of only a single planet that hosts life: the Earth. But across a Universe of at least 100 billion possibly ha