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Roger Penrose [1931-0] English

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Physicist, Mathematician

Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS is 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.

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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.		101
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.	Beauty	102
As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.		103
My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.	Hope	104
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.		105
People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.		106
And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.		107
Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.		108
Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.	Movies	109
There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.	Chance	110
Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.		111
As you say, the way string theory requires all these extra dimensions and this comes from certain consistency requirements about how string should behave and so on.		112
Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.		113
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.		114
This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.	Trust	115
I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.		116
I was indeed very slow as a youngster.		117
The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.		118
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.		119
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has been around for longer than gauge theory has.		120
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.		121
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.		122

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