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Hawking (2004)

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A drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who, despite being diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, has galvanized the scientific world with his ground-breaking work on the nature of the universe. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)

Keywords: 1960s, bathtub, big-bang-theory, blackboard, cambridge-university, cane, chalk, cosmic-ray, cosmologist, cricket-the-game

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The story of the search for the beginning of time.

Quotes:

[last lines]::Stephen Hawking: Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Can you hear me?

Stephen Hawking: We are very very small. But we are profoundly capable of very very big things.

Stephen Hawking: What about the brain, I mean the brain itself?::Dr. John Holloway: Untouched. The brain is left untouched.

Penrose, Roger Filmography

Achieving the Unachievable
2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
Dangerous Knowledge
2007, role: actor
The Flow of Time
1999, role: actor , character name: Himself - Physicist
In Search of the Dead
1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
A Brief History of Time
1991, role: actor , character name: Himself - Professor at Cambridge

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Sir Roger Penrose — The quantum nature of consciousness

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Sir Roger Penrose. Quantum Consciousness Theorist — Co-creator of the Orch OR model of the quantum nature of consciousness and memory. http://GF2045.com/spea...

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Closer To Truth asks Roger Penrose: What Things Really Exist?

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Updated: 18 Aug 2013

For more videos and information, visit http://www.closertotruth.com What things really exist? Our host Robert Lawrence Kuhn poses the question to Roger Penro...

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Roger Penrose - Forbidden crystal symmetry in mathematics and architecture

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Updated: 16 Jan 2014

Sir Roger Penrose provides a unique insight into the "forbidden symmetry" of his famous penrose tiles and the use of non-repeating patterns in deisgn and architecture. It is a rigorous mathematical theorem that the only crystallographic symmetries are 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, and 6-fold symmetries. Yet, since the 1970s 5-fold, 8-fold, 10-fold and 12-fold "almost" symmetric patterns have been exhibited, showing that such crystallographically "forbidden symmetries" are mathematically possible and deviate from exact symmetry by an arbitrarily small amount. Such patterns are often beautiful to behold and designs based on these arrangements have now been used in many buildings throughout the world. In this Ri event Sir Roger Penrose reveals the mathematical underpinnings and origins of these "forbidden symmetries" and other related patterns. His talk is illustrated with numerous examples of their use in architectural design including a novel version of "Penrose tiling" that appears in the approach to the main entrance of the new Mathematics Institute in Oxford, officially opened in late 2013 (http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/new-building). The tiling is constructed from several thousand diamond-shaped granite tiles of just two different shapes, decorated simply with circular arcs of stainless steel. The matching of the tiles forces them into an overall pattern which never repeats itself and exhibits remarkable aspects of 5-fold and 10-fold symmetry. Similar features have been found also in the atomic structures of quasi-crystalline materials. The initial discovery of such material earned Dan Shectman the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry, his work having launched a completely novel area of crystallography. The filming and production of this event was supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council: http://www.stfc.ac.uk The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://richannel.org/newsletter

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Sir Roger Penrose, Aeons before the Big Bang (Copernicus Center Lecture 2010)

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Updated: 19 Aug 2013

The second Copernicus Center Lecture was delivered by Professor Roger Penrose, a famous physicist and philosopher of science. Professor Penrose titled his sp...

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Roger Penrose: Forbidden crystal symmetry - Event Q&A;

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Updated: 16 Jan 2014

The event question and answer session from an Ri event with Sir Roger Penrose in October 2013. The famous mathematicain provides a unique insight into the "forbidden symmetry" of his famous penrose tiles and the use of non-repeating patterns in deisgn and architecture. It is a rigorous mathematical theorem that the only crystallographic symmetries are 2-fold, 3-fold, 4-fold, and 6-fold symmetries. Yet, since the 1970s 5-fold, 8-fold, 10-fold and 12-fold "almost" symmetric patterns have been exhibited, showing that such crystallographically "forbidden symmetries" are mathematically possible and deviate from exact symmetry by an arbitrarily small amount. Such patterns are often beautiful to behold and designs based on these arrangements have now been used in many buildings throughout the world. In this Ri event Sir Roger Penrose reveals the mathematical underpinnings and origins of these "forbidden symmetries" and other related patterns. His talk is illustrated with numerous examples of their use in architectural design including a novel version of "Penrose tiling" that appears in the approach to the main entrance of the new Mathematics Institute in Oxford, officially opened in late 2013 (http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/new-building). The tiling is constructed from several thousand diamond-shaped granite tiles of just two different shapes, decorated simply with circular arcs of stainless steel. The matching of the tiles forces them into an overall pattern which never repeats itself and exhibits remarkable aspects of 5-fold and 10-fold symmetry. Similar features have been found also in the atomic structures of quasi-crystalline materials. The initial discovery of such material earned Dan Shectman the 2011 Nobel Prize for chemistry, his work having launched a completely novel area of crystallography. The filming and production of this event was supported by the Science and Technology Facilities Council: http://www.stfc.ac.uk Watch more science videos on the Ri Channel http://richannel.org The Ri is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ri_science and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/royalinstitution Subscribe for the latest science videos: http://richannel.org/newsletter

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Hawking, God, & the Universe: Alister E. McGrath vs. Roger Penrose

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Updated: 18 Sep 2013

2010 debate on the Unbelievable radio broadcast between Anglican priest, theologian, & biophysicist Alister E. McGrath and atheist physicist, mathematician, & philosopher Roger Penrose. McGrath's website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mcgrath/

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Professor Dr. Sir Roger Penrose on new clues to the basics of conscious mentality

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Updated: 19 Aug 2013

Professor Dr. Sir Roger Penrose is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and has received numerous prizes and awards, amon...

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Roger Penrose on Twistors and Quantum Non-Locality

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Updated: 17 Aug 2013

Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University of Oxford, Sir Roger Penrose, discusses Twistors and Quantum Non-Locality.

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Seeing Through the Big Bang into Another World - Professor Sir Roger Penrose

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Updated: 10 Aug 2013

The Annual Lewis Elton Lecture - 2012 According to currently standard cosmology, the universe started with a Big Bang, immediately followed by a fleeting mom...

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Roger Penrose on Quantum Mechanics and Schrodinger's cat

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Updated: 19 Aug 2013

Excerpt from Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe, Lecture 3: FANTASY @ Princeton University (2003-10-22)

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The Problem of Modelling the Mathematical Mind

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Updated: 18 Aug 2013

VideoLectures.Net View the talk in context: http://videolectures.net/turing100_penrose_mathematical_mind/ View the complete Alan Turing Centenary Conference ...

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Roger Penrose - Cyclic Universe Model

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Updated: 09 Aug 2013

Roger Penrose interviewed about his new model of the universe. From what I understand, he is saying that when our current universe reaches heat death, a new ...

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Roger Penrose: Dal Big Bang all'eternità, Cycles of time: An extraordinary new view of the universe

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Updated: 05 Jan 2014

http://www.festivalscienza.it http://gabrielemartufi.altervista.org Dal Big Bang all'eternità. I cicli temporali che danno forma all'universo Cycles of time: An extraordinary new view of the universe Sir Roger Penrose è un fisico matematico inglese, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics al Mathematical Institute dell'Università di Oxford e Emeritus Fellow al Wadham College. È uno dei più grandi pensatori dei nostri tempi e nel 1988 per i suoi studi sulla struttura dell'universo ha ricevuto il premio Wolf (Wolf-Prize) per la fisica, insieme a Stephen Hawking. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose Intervista/Interview Perché crediamo nel Big Bang? Perché abbiamo delle prove: le galassie che si allontanano, l'espansione dell'Universo. Qualcuno ha scoperto la radiazione di fondo a microonde, che viene da tutte le direzioni ed è 3,7 gradi sopra lo zero assoluto. Ovvero, il lampo del Big Bang che si è raffreddato: questa ne è l'evidenza diretta. Ma l'ipotesi di questo modello cosmologico standard, secondo il quale l'Universo nato dalla grande esplosione è destinato a espandersi in eterno e a raffreddarsi sempre di più, non è l'unica strada. Secondo altri studi non c'è solo un Big Bang, ma anche un grande crunch (Big Crunch). Da tenere in conto, c'è anche l'entropia: per la seconda legge della termodinamica, l'entropia aumenta con il tempo. Dunque, la casualità aumenta. Il paradosso è che nel momento del Big Bang si ritiene che l'entropia fosse già al massimo grazie alla curva di equilibrio termico. Eppure, teoricamente se si torna indietro nel tempo c'è meno entropia. Se l'entropia era già al massimo, come può aumentare di più? L'elemento fondamentale da prendere in considerazione è la gravità. Siccome l'Universo attrae, aumenta l'entropia e le stelle formano un agglomerato, che dà poi origine a un buco nero. È così che l'Universo è diventato più casuale. Ma la natura speciale del Big Bang sta nel fatto che la gravità nelle prime fasi non era attivata. Se si risale nel tempo al Big Bang, la temperatura diventa via via più calda e a un certo punto la massa diventa completamente irrilevante. Allora la geometria è una geometria conforme e non quella di Einstein. Dunque non è più una singolarità. Nell'ipotesi di un Universo in perenne espansione, tutto diventa molto noioso, e possiamo ipotizzare solo piccole esplosioni. Ma forse l'Universo è una sorta di loop? Si può tornare indietro nel tempo? Ci sarà un altro universo dopo il nostro e ancora e ancora all'infinito? Per quale motivo crede che la nostra coscienza il nostro pensiero non sia ripetibile, simulabile all'interno di una macchina? La coscienza è qualcosa che mi ha sempre interessato molto: mio padre si occupava di malattie mentali, una materia che dunque era di un certo interesse nella mia famiglia. Quando mi trovavo nel mio primo anno di università, stavo facendo matematica pura e seguivo corsi di fisica quantistica e cosmologia così per divertimento. Durante un corso di logica matematica ho imparato i teoremi di incompletezza di Kurt Gödel e le teorie di Alan Turing. Mi fu immediatamente chiaro che capire ciò che è vero in matematica non è necessariamente governato da regole. Qualunque regola si stabilisce, si può infrangere questa regola. Se accetti le regole, ti rendi conto che puoi andare oltre. Io devo seguire delle regole e accettarle, ma Gödel dice no se accetti queste regole, devi accettare anche le altre! Che vanno oltre le tue regole. La mente, il capire non può essere rinchiuso in queste regole computazionali. La penso così da molti anni pur rimanendo una persona che crede che tutto quello che succede nella nostra testa abbia a che fare con le leggi della fisica. Non esiste qualcosa al di fuori di queste regole. Ma cos'è la fisica? Se la fisica segue le regole computazionali, allora sono vincolato, ma se c'è qualcosa di più nella fisica, allora forse quel qualcosa in più è dentro la nostra testa. Il più grande buco di comprensione che abbiamo è sicuramente nella meccanica quantistica; non perché sia misteriosa o troppo difficile da comprendere. La meccanica quantistica è di base inconsistente. Si può seguire una regola. Ma puoi immediatamente cambiare e seguirne un'altra completamente diversa. Ogni volta che cerchi di fare misurazioni tutto cambia. E io mi dicevo come puoi cambiare le regole durante il gioco, a casa mia questo si chiama barare! Non è difficile da capire è incoerente e con il mio background da matematico non mi piace molto l'incoerenza, per questo mi sembrò all'epoca che la fisica quantistica non fosse la risposta finale. Mi gratificò molto il fatto che altri pensatori oltre ad Albert Einstein hanno creduto che la meccanica quantistica non fosse l'ultima risposta e che c'era bisogno di qualche miglioramento. L'intelligenza non può essere presente senza capire. Nessun computer ha alcuna consapevolezza di quello che fa. (Roger Penrose)

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TEDxWarwick - Sir Roger Penrose - Space-Time Geometry and a New Cosmology

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Updated: 17 Aug 2013

Sir Roger Penrose is one of the world's leading mathematical physicists. He is also joint winner of the Wolf prize with Stephen Hawking for their contributio...

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Roger Penrose at the Cambridge Union Society

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Updated: 15 Aug 2013

Sir Roger Penrose is a renowned British scientist and writer. He is best known for his award-winning work in mathematical physics, his contributions to gener...

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Preview - The Cyclic Universe - A conversation with Roger Penrose

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Updated: 10 Aug 2013

In the last twenty years, cosmology has unexpectedly emerged as one of the most exciting and dynamic fields of modern science. From astoundingly precise meas...

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Hawking co-scientist Roger Penrose debunks M-theory on Christian Radio

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Updated: 01 Aug 2013

Prof Alister McGrath and famed physicist, and atheist, Prof Roger Penrose discuss the following questions: Is Hawking's M-theory good science? Does Hawking's...

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Richard Dawkins shot in the foot by Roger Penrose

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See also ''Intelligent design or blind chance.Why a default position?''

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Twistor Theory Roger Penrose

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Updated: 22 Dec 2013

Twistor Theory

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Conscious Understanding: What is its Physical Basis?

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Updated: 16 Aug 2013

Google Tech Talk March 10, 2010 ABSTRACT Presented by Sir Roger Penrose. Powerful arguments can be given, to support the case that the quality of human under...

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Roger Penrose Interview on Black Holes

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Updated: 28 Nov 2013

In this Interview Professor Roger Penrose describes the existence of singularities within the Einstein Field Equations that predict the existence of objects with infinite spacetime curvature, forming a black hole. Since Einstein's equations are normalized by c, the speed of light, the infinite curvature is seen from the point of view of an object travelling at c such as a photon. This makes it impossible for a photon to escape the black hole once it passes the event horizon, as it circles within it continuously in space and time, its wavelength stretching untill it is rendered into a vacuum fluctuation. Roger Penrose was one of the first people to show that singularities in general relativity should form out of an object that did not necessarily have to collapse with perfect symmetry in space and could form out of the core of a dying star undergoing a supernova. He was also one of the first people to suggest that the Big Bang itself could have arisen from such a singularity, or in other words singularities arise when considering the events happening during large supernovae or at the creation of the known universe. Stephen Hawking, one of Roger Penrose's lifelong colleagues, examined black hole dynamics in more detail, showing that a singularity is necessary to describe the expansion of the universe and that if black holes do exist, their event horizons could be described by quantum mechanics. In 1974 Stephen Hawking was the first person to develop a theory which can be used to describe the effect of the vacuum caused by a black hole. Virtual Particle-Antiparticle pairs can form in space due to vacuum fluctuations. These vacuum fluctuations polarize the vacuum in a small order effect, as predicted by the theory of Quantum Electrodynamics. Experimentally this polarization is observed as The Casimir Effect between nanoscale matter and the Lamb Shift in Hydrogen spectra. These fluctuations exist in vacuum as quantised particles, but since they are never observed due to quanisation of energy, they are called "virtual". However, Hawking realized that there is a place in the universe where these vacuum fluctuations can be converted into real quanta, namely around the event Horizon of a black hole. The consequence of the theory is surprising in that Black Holes can evaporate into a particle flux known as Hawking Radiation, meaning that they do in fact give off radiation and are not completely black, even in complete vacuum. During this time only a few black hole candidates had been discovered, the first and most convincing candidate was Cygnus X-1, one of the strongest x-ray sources close to the earth. Cygnus X-1 is still unconfirmed, however indirect evidence has shown that it meets most of the criterion to be a true black hole.

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Aeons Before the Big Bang - Sir Roger Penrose Christmas Lecture

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Updated: 11 Aug 2013

Sir Roger Penrose is a prize winning mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxf...

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"Are we Seeing Signals from Before the Big Bang?" - Professor Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS

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Updated: 30 Jan 2014

Abstract: In 2005 I proposed the unconventional scheme of conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC). This takes what is currently regarded as the entire history of the universe, from its Big-Bang origin (with no inflationary phase) to its final exponential expansion, to be but one aeon of a continual succession of such aeons. The big bang of each is taken to be an infinitely scaled down continuation of the exponentially expanding remote future of the previous one. A positive cosmological constant (dark energy) and some primordial scalar material (dark matter) are both essential to CCC's consistency. Supermassive black-hole encounters in the aeon previous to ours would have observational implications for CCC, detectable within the cosmic microwave background. Recent evidence of such signals in both the WMAP and Planck satellite data will be presented. About the Speaker: Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, is a mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. Penrose is known for his influential work in mathematical physics, in particular for his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He has received a number of prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe. Popular science works include The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, and The Road To Reality.

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Reason Special interview with Roger Penrose

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Updated: 17 Mar 2013

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/dn14312?DCMP=youtube Penrose talks about when we need to sidestep reason.

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Before the big bang 2 - Conformal Cyclic Cosmology explained

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Updated: 24 Jan 2014

The conventional view that time began at the big bang is often said to be based on what is known as Penrose Hawking singularity theorems. In our last film, Abhay Ashtekar and Ivan Agullo argued that a singularity is replaced with a bounce in quantum gravity. In this film, we interview Sir Roger Penrose, one of the authors of the conventional narrative who presents an alternative view which he calls CCC (Conformal Cyclic Cosmology). In CCC the big bang is not the ultimate beginning but it did not arise from a bounce; instead the universe rescales itself, losing track of how big it is as massive particles disappear (and hence the ability to measure space and time) in the remote future. This cyclic behaviour may be extended to the infinite past and future. Whilst Roger Penrose and Vahe Gurzadyan's claim that there was evidence for CCC in the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) was not accepted by the wider community, what's less well known is that a new team led by Prof Krzysztof Meissner (University of Warsaw, CERN) has claimed a confirmation of CCC in a new study. We discuss this with Professors Penrose and Meissner and put to them many questions regarding this new model. The film is intended for a lay audience that has an interest in cosmology and the origin of the big bang. The interviewees were asked to check a draft of the film to make sure they had not been taken out of context in the edit and there are no scientific mistakes. Animation credits: Big bang/expanding universe animation: Alex Bennett Colliding galaxies: NASA For more material read Roger Penrose' book Cycles of Time: amazon.co.uk/Cycles-Time-Extraordinary-View-Universe/dp/0099505940 Technical paper on CCC from the Journal of Physics: iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/229/1/012013 Paper claiming circles in the CMB: link.springer.com/article/10.1140%2Fepjp%2Fi2013-13022-4 Paper denying circles in the CMB: arxiv.org/abs/1012.1305 Meissner's paper claiming confirmation of circles: arxiv.org/pdf/1307.5737.pdf Ted Newman's paper on CCC: arxiv.org/abs/1012.1305 Sean Carroll's article on CCC and debating William Lane Craig: preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/12/07/penroses-cyclic-cosmology/ preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2012/09/25/let-the-universe-be-the-universe/ William Lane Craig podcast on CCC: reasonablefaith.org/truth-free-will-and-cosmology Music is by Sigur Ros and is used with permission. For permission , see this link:http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/band/faq.php#13

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Hawking co-scientist Roger Penrose debunks M-theory on Christian Radio

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Updated: 09 Jan 2014

Prof Alister McGrath and famed physicist, and atheist, Prof Roger Penrose discuss the following questions: Is Hawking's M-theory good science? Does Hawking's M-theory show that God did not create the universe? Is our fine-tuned universe simply one of many in a multi-verse? Taken from Unbelievable? radio show with Justin Brierley, Saturday 25th September 2010. For more info, visit: www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable

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Stuart Hameroff on Singularity 1 on 1: Consciousness is More than Computation!

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Updated: 12 Sep 2013

http://www.singularityweblog.com/stuart-hameroff-quantum-consciousness/ Dr. Stuart Hameroff is a Professor of Anesthesiology and Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona. Together with British quantum physicist Sir Roger Penrose, Hameroff is the co-author of the controversial Orch OR model of consciousness. I first met Dr. Hameroff at the recent GF2045 conference where the usually mild-mannered Ray Kurzweil went out of his way to make it abundantly clear that the Orch OR model is totally wrong. Other scientists I met there called it "speculative," "non-testable" and "unscientific". By now both Stuart and Roger must have become accustomed to such attacks, and I have developed a lot of respect for the calm but firm way they are daring to stand their ground. Furthermore, if the Orch OR model were to be correct, then, there will be profound implications on variety of fields and disciplines such as medicine, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, quantum physics and philosophy. And so I decided to bring Dr. Hameroff on Singularity 1 on 1 where we can confront the controversy head-on. During our 1 hour conversation with Stuart we cover a variety of interesting topics such as: how he got interested in studying consciousness and the definition thereof; why understanding anesthesia is the route to understanding consciousness; the hard problem of consciousness; why the brain is more than a classical computer; how Hameroff reached out to Roger Penrose after reading The Emperor's New Mind; the Orch OR model and why the vast majority of scientists are disdainful of it; the best ways of proving or disproving the Hameroff/Penrose model and the most important implications if it is indeed correct; out-of-body experiences, quantum souls, afterlife, and reincarnation; Hinduism and Buddhism; cryonics and chemical brain preservation; Stuart's upcoming paper [together with Roger Penrose] where they will review and present new evidence in support of the Orch OR theory. This is by far the highest quality, best produced and most expensive interview that I have done so far. It would have never happened without the generous support of Richard and Tatiana Sundvall. [Richard not only produced but also edited this interview] I am also very obliged to videographer Carl Geers not only for doing a great job behind the camera but also for putting up with my mercilessly caustic sense of humor for three long days. Finally, I want to thank Dr. Stuart Hameroff for welcoming a "Singularity/AI type" like me in his operating room, as well as his genuine willingness to address any and all of my tough questions on the spot, without preparation and prior approval.

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Syria says 175 fighters killed near Damascus

Al Jazeera

27 Feb 2014

Syrian army troops have killed 175 opposition fighters, many of them linked to al-Qaeda-linked groups, in an ambush described as one of the deadliest attacks by government forces near Damascus, according to state media ... The report claimed several of those killed were foreign fighters who came to Syria from Saudi Arabia, Chechnya and Qatar ... From a distance, people could be seen running in different directions following the blasts ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)

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File- Staff Sgt. James Allen conducts a dismounted patrol of the Sharana District Center bazaar with his platoon’s Afghan Uniformed Police partners, Paktika Province, Afghanistan, 6 August, 2011.

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Obama warns Afghan president of full troop withdrawal

The Times of India

26 Feb 2014

WASHINGTON. US President Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that he is now planning for a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's repeated refusal to sign a security pact. But in a rare telephone call with Afghan President Karzai, Obama also held out the possibility of agreeing to a post-2014 training and anti-terror mission with the next government in Kabul ... 'Zero option' ... 'Friendly' conversation ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)

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Anti-Yanukovych protesters march in Kiev's Independence Square, the epicenter of the country's current unrest, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014.

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Gorbachev, Ukraine, and Slaying Dragons

WorldNews.com

25 Feb 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. "Just like reformers before me, I thought that we had a system that could be improved. Instead, I learned that we had a system that needed to be replaced." -Mikhail Gorbachev. Ukrainian ballots have blood on them. Three months of deadly protests and pitched battles have wounded and killed hundreds of citizens. Meanwhile, Ukraine's parliament voted to remove President Viktor Yanukovich ... 394....(size: 4.9Kb)

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Civilians clear the aftermath of a car bomb attack in the crowded commercial area of Karrada, Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014.

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Baghdad bombings leave scores dead and more injured

BBC News

27 Feb 2014

At least 26 people have been killed in bombings around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, according to officials. Seventeen people were killed in one blast at a second-hand motorbike market in the eastern Sadr City district, they said. The bomb, which also injured 38, appears to have been placed in a motorbike at the market ... Sadr City is a predominantly Shiite Muslim district ... ....(size: 1.8Kb)

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Militants Kill Students at Nigerian School

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26 Feb 2014

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Wednesday's TV Highlights: 'American Horror Story: Coven' on FX

The Los Angeles Times

29 Jan 2014

Customized TV Listings are available here. www.latimes.com/tvtimes. Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 26 - Feb. 1, 2014 in PDF format. This week's TV Movies  . . SERIES ... 8 p.m. CBS. Revolution Bret Michaels guest stars in this new episode. 8 p.m. NBC. American Idol Hopefuls audition in Salt Lake City. 8 p.m. Fox ... 8 p.m. KOCE ... NBC ... With physicist Roger Penrose, former astronaut Buzz Aldrin and actor Benedict Cumberbatch....(size: 5.7Kb)

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The Kronies Love Small Business And Hate Crony Capitalism, But Can They Bring People Together?

Huffington Post

27 Jan 2014

Here comes the populist right! A mysterious new online entity calling itself Chimera Global Holdings is pushing a new comedy video/action figure marketing venture celebrating small businesses and excoriating the evils of crony capitalism. Ladies and gentlemen, gird your loins in preparation for America's newest political antiheroes ... the Kronies! ... The answer to that question is ... Also on HuffPost. Loading Slideshow ... Roger Penrose ... Like ... ....(size: 3.3Kb)

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'Hawking' review: Documentary shows scientist's brilliance

San Francisco Chronicle

24 Jan 2014

"Hawking" is a brief film history of a man who has defied both the odds of his own survival and a few mysteries of the universe. Stephen Hawking, who turned 72 this month, is so much the most famous physicist in the world, it's not an exaggeration to say he's achieved rock star status ... We do hear Hawking's story in his own words, but not his own voice, of course ... He did so by building on work done on black holes by Sir Roger Penrose ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)

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Vedic Cosmology: Integrating God and Physics

Huffington Post

18 Jan 2014

In 2012, CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, called for a debate between scientists, philosophers and theologians to find common ground between science and religion over how the universe began ... Ideas regarding a cyclic behavior of the universe have also been proposed by prominent physicists like Sir Roger Penrose and Paul Steinhardt ... In between the partial devastations, there are time periods called ages ...   ... Like ... ....(size: 5.8Kb)

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Discovery of Quantum Vibrations in “Microtubules” Inside Brain Neurons Corroborates Controversial 20-Year-Old Theory of Consciousness (Elsevier BV)

noodls

17 Jan 2014

The recent discovery of quantum vibrations in "microtubules" inside brain neurons corroborates this theory, according to review authors Stuart Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose ... "Reply to criticism of the 'Orch OR qubit'-'Orchestrated objective reduction' is scientifically justified," by Stuart Hameroff, MD, and Roger Penrose, FRS (http.//dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2013.11.014);....(size: 8.1Kb)

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Stephen Hawking's life, past and present, in highlighted in a stunning film

The Examiner

14 Jan 2014

He is a most fascinating man ... The documentary airs on PBS Wednesday, January 29 ... The film offers rare insights into Hawking’s life, past and present, aided by a cast of stellar contributors and Hawking fans, including astronaut Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr., actors Jim Carrey and Benedict Cumberbatch, mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson....(size: 2.8Kb)

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Former British soldier wins 2013 Bodley Head/FT essay prize (The Financial Times Ltd)

noodls

10 Jan 2014

(Source. The Financial Times Ltd). 10 January 2014. Adnan Sarwar, a 35-year old former British soldier who served in the Iraq War, has beaten more than 200 entrants to win the second Financial Times and Bodley Head non-fiction essay competition ... It is a work of non-fiction with all the velocity of a gripping short story ... Its authors include Karen Armstrong, MishaGlenny, Jeffrey Sachs, Simon Schama, Jonathan Powell and Roger Penrose....(size: 4.5Kb)

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A DREAM RUN My Brief History By Stephen Hawking, Bantam, £12.99 The author of A ...

The Telegraph India

03 Jan 2014

My Brief History By Stephen Hawking, Bantam, £12.99. The author of A Brief History of Time has now come up with the story of his life ... The book offers an intense yet candid portrayal of the scientist ... To my surprise, I found I liked it ... Almost immediately after that Hawking became interested in black holes and the casual structure theory that he developed with Roger Penrose ... I recall Penrose also came down to Caltech about the same time....(size: 7.2Kb)

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Probing The Unknowable Mysteries Of The Brain

National Public Radio

04 Dec 2013

The main focus of the conference was this ... This is what the physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, both present at the conference, ... There has been strong criticism of the Penrose-Hameroff ideas from experimental and theoretical arguments ... @mgleiser. Max Tegmark Stuart Hameroff Roger Penrose Colin McGinn David Chalmers mind consciousness Thomas Nagel brain quantum mechanics Rene Descartes . ....(size: 6.5Kb)

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5 Mysteries About The Universe That Should Be Keeping Physicists Awake At Night

Business Insider

07 Nov 2013

Scientific American editor Clara Moskowitz has a nice post showcasing some of the big questions asked by participants at a recent particle physics conference.  ... 1. Will we ever understand quantum mechanics? ... 2 ... 3 ... A few years ago Roger Penrose and Stuart Hammerof proposed that the switching of protein assemblies called microtubules in the brain could be seen as a direct example of the entangled superposition of elementary particles ... ....(size: 20.3Kb)

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Big Draw looking to be just that

Hong Kong Standard

27 Oct 2013

The Big Draw Hong Kong launches tomorrow. It's a year-long community-wide engagement project that uses drawing as a tool for creativity. //--> Monday, October 28, 2013. The Big Draw Hong Kong launches tomorrow ... Endorsed by notable figures such as Quentin Blake (illustrator), Roger Penrose (mathematician) and Christopher Frayling (former chairman of Arts Council England), we are lucky to welcome such an initiative. ADVERTISEMENT ... ....(size: 2.3Kb)

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Martin Gardner -- The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had

Huffington Post

21 Oct 2013

Conway, Roger Penrose and Oprah Winfrey have in common? The same thing as Isaac Asimov, Vladimir Nabokov, and Salvador Dali ... American for a quarter of a century, many people were turned on to fun and sometimes esoteric topics which often had deep ramifications, such as origami, Conway's Game of Life, fractals, RSA cryptography and Penrose tiles....(size: 7.6Kb)

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Hooray for Hamilton: a walk and talk in memory of Ireland’s greatest mathematician

The Irish Times

10 Oct 2013

Penrose to give lecture next week ... The speaker this year is Sir Roger Penrose. Penrose, a mathematical physicist based at Oxford, is internationally renowned for his scientific work, particularly for his contributions to general relativity and cosmology ... one important to Penrose, relating to the theory of twistors, which Penrose proposed in 1963....(size: 2.8Kb)

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