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'''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:''' 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Zumino Zumino] at one point, and I was most intrigued because I could—


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'''Sir Roger Penrose:''' You're thinking of the Lagrangian, yes.  
'''Sir Roger Penrose:''' You're thinking of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian Lagrangian], yes.  


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'''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:''' 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Hitchin Nigel Hitchin], or Mason, I guess, has been in that system.


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'''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?
'''Eric Weinstein:''' Let me just... One final thing. Have you been to the courtyard of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simons_Center_for_Geometry_and_Physics Simons Center for Geometry and Physics] at Stony Brook, which is tiled with Penrose tiles?


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