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Sir Roger Penrose has had a remarkable life. He has contributed an enormous amount to our understanding of general relativity, perhaps more than anyone since Einstein himself — Penrose diagrams, singularity theorems, the Penrose process, cosmic censorship, and the list goes on. He has made important contributions to mathematics, including such fun ideas as the Penrose triangle and aperiodic tilings. He has also made bold conjectures in the notoriously contentious areas of quantum mechanics and the study of consciousness. In his spare time he’s managed to become an extremely successful author, writing such books as The Emperor’s New Mind and The Road to Reality. With far too much that we could have talked about, we decided to concentrate in this discussion on spacetime, black holes, and cosmology, but we made sure to reserve some time to dig into quantum mechanics and the brain by the end.
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He’s not telling the truth. He knows who and what people he stole his whole theory from. Ask him to explain why he’s calling it black holes?
I feel like penrose's theroy is compatible with russellian panpsychism. You would just add some quantum dynamics to it. It would describe the behaviour of consciousness no consciousness itself
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As if the physics community, traveling in too close proximity to the idea of black holes was suddenly drawn in and spaghettified………………………………………………………..
4:15 "hello, quiet peasant" ?
Didn't know sean carroll did quiet farm work on the side.
sean listens closely, he's in a class of his own ..
ray salmon. . 1 second ago. . If you want minute block PDF of the transcript
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There is a huge amount of matter that falls into black holes which eventually evaporates into photons. But there's a lot of material that will never fall into a black hole such as intergalactic hydrogen atoms and neutrinos. Do these decay into photons within googol years? This needs to be discussed.
Every word is like gold dust, incredible.
It's crazy when you see that his Joe Rogan interview got 2 million views, while this gets 150k.
This is great thankyou!
Fascinating convo!!! Never realized how Universally talented Roger is! ….. unlike H. Everett.
Why only half an hour about QM and consciousness…. sigh… :'(
This theory gives my heart huge relief…. I always thought a cyclic universe made more sense than everything springing from nothing in a single instant…..
This is way more comforting, and I wish it had been around when I studied physics a decade ago.
The insistence on the big bang (justifiably) along with acceleration of space expansion never felt like a very complete description.
Anyway, love this podcast, I just wish it had video (I know that's way more work)!
Thank you and keep up the variety of guests. Perfect for both my creative and analytic minds!
Sagittarius A black hole is about 2.2 10^7 km in D. 1 light year ~ 10^13 km
SIR Roger Penrose……
Prof Sir Roger Penrose and Prof Sean Carroll are my two favourite living physicists. I read "The Emperor's New Mind some 30 years ago and Prof Penrose seems to be as extraordinary as he was back then. Remarkably interesting podcast. Best I've watched for a long time.
26:00 Sean made me laugh out loud – He said if we could extract the energy from the Super Massive Black Hole at the center of our Galaxy (4,000,000,000 solar masses) we'd no longer be dependent on foriegn oil! I guffawed loudly….
I can't listen to stuff like this. It makes me want to fire my guru psychic faith healers.
Just think how many subscribers this channel would have if there was video or if it was live. It would blow up, there'd be hundreds of thousands if not millions of new subs.