Early in his career, Oxford University mathematician Roger Penrose inspired artist M.C. ascending and descending, a visual illusion of a loop of stairs that seems to rise forever. It remains an apt metaphor for Penrose’s relentless quest. During his long career, he worked with Stephen Hawking to uncover the secrets of the Big Bang and worked with an anesthesiologist to develop a quantum theory of consciousness. Stuart Hameroff and won nobel prize in physics For predicting a singularity at the center of a so-called black hole, a region where the gravitational field is so strong that space-time itself collapses. Timeless, Penrose turns 91 this year, but he continues to innovate and plans to communicate with the universe in the future.
Michael Brooks: Around the beginning of your career in 1965, you used general relativity to first predict the existence of singularities like the one at the center of a black hole.how did you feel when you saw First photo of a black hole More than half a century later?
Roger Penrose: Honestly, I was expecting these things by then, so it didn’t impress me much. [singularity] Theorem, it was a very strange situation: I was visiting Princeton to give a talk. Bob Dicke A famous cosmologist and a very prominent person came up to me and patted me on the back and said: And it was a very common view. Even Einstein, I suspect he probably had it…
