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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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.
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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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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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As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.
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In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature.