Re: Penrose's new ideas on the big bang

Jay R. Yablon wrote:
> > Of
> > course, Penrose touched on two of his main themes, the possible role of
> > quantum theory in consciousness (I don't think his case is very strong
> > here, though I am sympathetic to his ideas about unification, if that's
> > the word, of GR with QM)
>
> Can you please tell us more about the unification ideas he presents?

Penrose gave a series of lectures a few years back where he talks about
some of these ideas. When he gave them at Princeton, they were recorded
and made available on the web. You can download them from:

http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/lectures/

Roger Penrose
"Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe"
Lectures 1, 2 & 3

Igor

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