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20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy

Jan 25, 2020
Sir Roger Penrose, an important descendant of Albert Einstein's school of geometric physics, discusses his view on Twistor Theory and its prospects for unification. The podcast explores topics such as history of understanding the universe, the elusive genius Dirac and his contributions to quantum mechanics, knots and spin in relation to the periodic table, visual and auditory illusions, the relationship between topological knottedness and waves, the concept of light cone and its relationship to the Twister Theorem, intellectual carnage caused by string theory, loop quantum gravity, and supersymmetry, and the significance of sticking with physics.
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