Category Archives: Sir Roger Penrose

Numerical Relativity and the Human Experience?

Posted on March 31, 2008 by PlatoHagel

“I’m a Platonist — a follower of Plato — who believes that one didn’t invent these sorts of things, that one discovers them. In a sense, all these mathematical facts are right there waiting to be discovered.”Donald (H. S. M.) … Continue reading →

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Blackhole Information Paradox

Posted on March 26, 2008 by PlatoHagel

What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?Robert Dicke John Archibald Wheeler (born July 9, 1911) is an eminent American theoretical physicist. One of the later collaborators of Albert Einstein, he tried to achieve Einstein’s vision … Continue reading →

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Big Bang:One Man’s Change of Heart

Posted on February 15, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Thanks Paul One definitely needs some perspective around this and how such information is given. I refer here for consideration, about perspective, and how it can be exploited for further consideration on what is emitted, and what manifests in weak … Continue reading →

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Think Math

Posted on October 24, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Nature’s patterns So who is right? Well, there is much that is attractive in the Platonist point of view. It’s tempting to see our everyday world as a pale shadow of a more perfect, ordered, mathematically exact one. For one … Continue reading →

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Science and the Mind: Sir Roger Penrose

Posted on October 7, 2005 by PlatoHagel

Above picture, belongs to this article and titled above, of frames that Sir Roger Penrose wrote in 1999. Roger Penrose, a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford in England, pursues an active interest in recreational math which he … Continue reading →

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