![]() I knew him when he was Dennis Sciama's graduate student I've known him for a long time now. What I suppose I'm best known for in that area are the singularity theorems that I worked on along with Stephen Hawking. Then there were the nonperiodic tilings, which relate to quasi crystals, and therefore to solid-state physics to some degree. I suppose my most quoted paper from that period was on generalized inverses of matrices, which is a mathematical thing that physicists hardly ever mention. I never got very far with quantum theory at that stage, but that was what I started off trying to do in physics. When I was first seriously thinking of getting into physics, I was thinking more in terms of quantum theory and quantum electrodynamics than of relativity. It's ultimately aimed at finding the appropriate union between general relativity and quantum theory. There's a major problem there, in which some progress was made a few years ago, and I feel fairly excited about it. My main technical interest is in twistor theory - a radical approach to space and time - and, in particular, how to fit it in with Einstein's general relativity. ![]() ![]() Isham of Quantum Concepts in Space and Time (1986). Sciama of Quantum Gravity 2: A Second Oxford Symposium (1981), and with C.J. (1984, 1986), The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (1989), Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness (1994) (with Stephen Hawking), The Nature of Space and Time (1996) coeditor with C.J. ROGER PENROSE is a mathematical physicist the Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford author of Techniques of Differential Topology in Relativity (1972), Spinors and Space-time, with W. Roger is the kind of person who has something original to say-something you've never heard before-on almost any subject that comes up. He's one of the very few people I've met in my life who, without reservation, I call a genius. He's the most creative person and the person who has contributed the most ideas to what we do. Lee Smolin: Roger Penrose is the most important physicist to work in relativity theory except for Einstein.
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