Quotes

[[q.I do not like the word materialist because I dont think we know what material is]]

Anecdotes and Accolades

Nobel Prize

Winner of the Nobel Prize in physics 2020, for work on [[black hole]]s (singularities) he did with [[Stephen Hawking]] - Origin of our idea that the universe began with/as a singularity, i.e. the [[Big Bang]].

Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

Originator of [[conformal cyclic cosmology]]

Infinite Tiling

Source:: (252) Roger Penrose | Logic, Conciousness and Quantum - YouTube

Mathematicians were trying to see how few tiles one would need to cover an infinite area where the pattern of tile combinations would nevere repeat. A chinese student got id down to a few thousand. Some other person got id down to a few hundred.

Penrose reduced it to... two.

Inspiring Escher

His father knew M.C. Escher, and some images Escher did latere were inspired by / a collaboration with Sir Penrose and his father.

Life

• Brought up in a quaker family, but holds no religious beliefs.

Talks etc. I've enjoyed

• (252) Why Quantum is Not Quite Right | Roger Penrose | Nobel Prize Winnner 2020 - YouTube
• https://youtu.be/YhbULagUKhA
  • with [[Alan guth]]
• https://youtu.be/7oCQuvhQY6o With [[Brian Greene]]
• [[The Portal 20 - Roger Penrose]]
• [[lex fridman podcast - 85 - roger penrose – physics of consciousness and the infinite universe]]
• Brian Greene and Sir Roger Penrose: World Science U Q+A Session - YouTube
  • even creator of inflation theory has created his own version of cyclical universe
  • 2h15m45s bohm was like a wavefunction himself #sample

Logic, Conciousness and Quantum

• Chess
  • Created a chess position that for humans obviously is a stale mate
  • Fritz, the best chess computer to date (2019) will loose
  • Thinks this is part of proof that human [[consciousness is not computational in nature]]

Talks etc. I want to watch

• Nobel Laureate - Sir Roger Penrose OM, FRS - Plenary 11 TSC2020 - YouTube

Topic:: [[physics]]