by Roger Penrose · DEBATE · tapa dura · ISBN 9788499927893
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What influences can fashion, faith, and fantasy have on scientific research that seeks to understand the behavior of the universe? In this book, Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner in Physics, explores how these forces can affect research in areas such as string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology. Penrose offers a critique of the most significant advances in current physics, inviting reflection on trends and beliefs in science.
Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and an honorary fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and University College London. He shared the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity". He proposed the Penrose triangle and corresponded with M. C. Escher, influencing his Waterfall and Ascending and Descending. Penrose's eponymous aperiodic tiling presaged the discovery of quasicrystals by Dan Shechtman.
