The idea is if you use those two shapes... by Roger Penrose

Idea Mathematician physicist Singularity Black Holes

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.

- Roger Penrose

Other quotes by Roger Penrose

Relativity

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.

- Roger Penrose

Direction

Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

- Roger Penrose

Pretty

I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

- Roger Penrose

Feeling People

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.

- Roger Penrose

Sense People

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.

- Roger Penrose

Theory

The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

- Roger Penrose

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