Roger Penrose
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose OM FRSis an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth8 August 1931
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Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.
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The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.
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Entire lights rays - you see if you made space, each of whose points represented an entire light ray, you'd find that space had five dimensions.
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I like science fiction movies, but I think they are useful for giving us ideas and I think science fiction is very good at giving ideas.
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Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
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Do not be afraid to skip equations (I do this frequently myself).
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It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!
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The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.
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Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.
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Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense.
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I was indeed very slow as a youngster.
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It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.
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As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
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So what I'm saying is why don't we think about changing Schrodinger's equation at some level when masses become too big at the level that you might have to worry about Einstein's general relativity.