20: Sir Roger Penrose - Plotting the Twist of Einstein’s Legacy: Difference between revisions

'''Sir Roger Penrose:''' Yes. Well it's very interesting, partly from a personal point of view, because when I first heard about it, and a lot of it was on Conformal Supersymmetry, and I could see there was a lot of connection with Twistor Theory. The only thing I didn't like was you were led to these algebras which didn't commute and, well, the square of something was zero or something, whatever. I mean, they weren't the kind of Algebra that you needed in Twistor Theory, you needed Complex Analysis. But anyway, I visited Zumino at one point, and I was most intrigued because I could—

'''Sir Roger Penrose:''' You're thinking of the Lagrangian, yes.  

'''Eric Weinstein:''' Well, that's, well, but the Oxford system, I mean, I don't have to make it so peculiar to Oxford, but you know, even if I think about, like a Nigel Hitchin, or Mason, I guess, has been in that system.

'''Eric Weinstein:''' Let me just... One final thing. Have you been to the courtyard of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook, which is tiled with Penrose tiles?