Roger Penrose, British mathematician and relativist who in the 1960s calculated many of the basic features of black holes. He notably proved, with Stephen Hawking, that all matter within a black hole collapses to a singularity with infinite density and z
Roger Penrose:I think…perhaps I’d better keep it quiet. I had no good idea going back there, so I can’t say it works every time. Adam Smith:Amazing! How do you feel about being portrayed in things like “The Theory of Everything”, in…in film? Roger Penrose:A mite strange rea...
Roger Penrose showed that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez discovered that an invisible and extremely heavy object governs the orbits of stars at the centre of our galaxy. A supermassive black hole is the only currently known...
Thus, Penrose's mention of Kant's theory on page 158 leaves something to be desired. Penrose says that if the postulates of Euclid are not logically "self-evident" tautologies, then what does it mean to say that they are a priori? It means, of course, that they are true independent ...
Hawking was the first to set out a theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. He was a vigorous supporter of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. He will be greatly missed by the world. ...