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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose Sir Roger Penrose] is arguably the most important living descendant of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein's] school of geometric physics. In this episode of [[The Portal Podcast|The Portal]], we avoid the usual questions put to Roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness. Instead we go back to ask about the current status of his thinking on what would have been called “Unified Field Theory” before it fell out of fashion a couple of generations ago. In particular, Roger is the dean of one of the only rival schools of thought to have survived the “String Theory wars” of the 1980s-2000s. We discuss his view of this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor_theory Twistor Theory] and its prospects for unification. Instead of spoon feeding the audience, however, the material is presented as it might occur between colleagues in neighboring fields so that the Portal audience might glimpse something closer to scientific communication rather than made for TV performance pedagogy. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Professor Penrose. | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Penrose Sir Roger Penrose] is arguably the most important living descendant of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein's] school of geometric physics. In this episode of [[The Portal Podcast|The Portal]], we avoid the usual questions put to Roger about quantum foundations and quantum consciousness. Instead we go back to ask about the current status of his thinking on what would have been called “Unified Field Theory” before it fell out of fashion a couple of generations ago. In particular, Roger is the dean of one of the only rival schools of thought to have survived the “String Theory wars” of the 1980s-2000s. We discuss his view of this [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twistor_theory Twistor Theory] and its prospects for unification. Instead of spoon feeding the audience, however, the material is presented as it might occur between colleagues in neighboring fields so that the Portal audience might glimpse something closer to scientific communication rather than made for TV performance pedagogy. We hope you enjoy our conversation with Professor Penrose. | ||
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[[File:ThePortal-Ep20 RogerPenrose-EricWeinstein.png|600px|thumb|Eric Weinstein (right) talking with Sir Roger Penrose (left) on episode 20 of The Portal Podcast]] | [[File:ThePortal-Ep20 RogerPenrose-EricWeinstein.png|600px|thumb|Eric Weinstein (right) talking with Sir Roger Penrose (left) on episode 20 of The Portal Podcast]] | ||
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=== Housekeeping and Introduction === | |||
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'''Eric Weinstein:''' Hello, this is Eric with two pieces of housekeeping before we get to today's episode with Sir Roger Penrose. Now in the first place, we released Episode 19 on the biomedical implications of Bret's evolutionary prediction from first principles of elongated telomeres in laboratory rodents. I think it's a significant enough episode, and we've had so much feedback around it, that before we continue any kind of line of thinking surrounding that episode, we'll wait for my brother and his wife, Heather Heying, to return from the Amazon where they're currently incommunicado. So thanks for all the feedback, it's been very interesting to process. | '''Eric Weinstein:''' Hello, this is Eric with two pieces of housekeeping before we get to today's episode with Sir Roger Penrose. Now in the first place, we released Episode 19 on the biomedical implications of Bret's evolutionary prediction from first principles of elongated telomeres in laboratory rodents. I think it's a significant enough episode, and we've had so much feedback around it, that before we continue any kind of line of thinking surrounding that episode, we'll wait for my brother and his wife, Heather Heying, to return from the Amazon where they're currently incommunicado. So thanks for all the feedback, it's been very interesting to process. | ||
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'''Eric Weinstein:''' Well, it could be Grand Unified Theory, Supersymmetry, Technicolor. It could be Asymptotic Safety. It could be any one of a number of speculative theories from Loop Quantum Gravity, | '''Eric Weinstein:''' Well, it could be Grand Unified Theory, Supersymmetry, Technicolor. It could be Asymptotic Safety. It could be any one of a number of speculative theories from Loop Quantum Gravity, Regge Calculus, String Theory. It's like the kitchen sink, we've tried a million different things that don't— | ||
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'''Eric Weinstein:''' All right. You've been through The Portal with Sir Roger Penrose, hope you've enjoyed it. Please subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. And if you are the sort of person who views podcasts, navigate over to our YouTube channel. Make sure that you subscribe and click the bell so you'll be informed the next time our next episode drops. Be well. | '''Eric Weinstein:''' All right. You've been through The Portal with Sir Roger Penrose, hope you've enjoyed it. Please subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. And if you are the sort of person who views podcasts, navigate over to our YouTube channel. Make sure that you subscribe and click the bell so you'll be informed the next time our next episode drops. Be well. | ||
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