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

2020/1/25
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Roger Penrose: 本次访谈主要围绕彭罗斯的Twister理论展开，他详细解释了该理论的起源、核心思想以及在解决物理学难题中的应用。他回顾了自己学习和研究的历程，从最初的代数几何到宇宙学，再到Twister理论，展现了其独特的学术思想和研究方法。他强调了复数在物理学中的基础性作用，并用几何图像解释了旋量的性质。他还讨论了Twister理论与广义相对论、量子力学以及粒子物理学之间的联系，并指出了该理论目前面临的挑战和未来的研究方向。 Eric Weinstein: 访谈主持人对彭罗斯的Twister理论表现出浓厚的兴趣，并引导彭罗斯深入探讨了该理论的细节。他与彭罗斯就理论物理学的发展历程、数学与物理学的交叉以及科学传播等问题进行了深入的交流。他还对理论物理学界的一些现象进行了批判性反思，例如对自身历史的歪曲以及对某些理论的过度关注。

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The episode introduces Sir Roger Penrose and his work on Twister Theory, a unique approach to understanding the unification of field theories.

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Roger Penrose is arguably the most important living descendent of Albert Einstein’s school of geometric physics. In this episode of The Portal, we avoid the usual questions put to roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness. Instead we go back to ask about the current status of his thinking on what would have been called “Unified Field Theory” before it fell out of fashion a couple of generations ago. In particular, Roger is the dean of one of the only rival schools of thought to have survived the “String Theory wars” of the 1980s-2000s. We discuss his view of this Twistor Theory and its prospects for unification. Instead of spoon feeding the audience, however, the material is presented as it might occur between colleagues in neighboring fields so that the Portal audience might glimpse something closer to scientific communication rather than made for TV performance pedagogy. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Prof. Penrose.

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