Roger Penrose
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Roger Penrose
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Re: Roger Penrose
The Road to Reality would be my Desert Island book, I have reached about page 30, so I'd need some time and no other reading matter to make my way through to the end.
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
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Re: Roger Penrose
I'm a professional physicist, and he didn't even explain the physics I know in a way I understood.
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Roger Penrose
Now we have to put up with "Nobel prize winning scientist says some made-up b.llsh.t about the Universe"
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Roger Penrose
He did a nice job on my bathroom though.
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Re: Roger Penrose
He was good in Danger Mouse.
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Roger Penrose
Really? Not my experience with him at all. Firstly, he couldn't quote on how many of each shape we needed, and then, for some reason, he couldn't finish in a neat line at the bathroom door threshold and ended up laying them along the landing, then down the stairs and out the front. Mentioned something about a periodic desolation, and I thought "too right, mate". Last I saw of him, he'd tiled next door's front lawn and was on his knees heading slowly for Surbiton.