Sir Roger Penrose, Aeons before the Big Bang (Copernicus Center Lecture 2010)

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• BC

  @bct1959 · 5 years ago

  My new happy place is Sir Roger's voice saying "...but don't worry too much about that."

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• M.

  @M.-.D · 5 years ago

  So incredible to see Professor Penrose win the Nobel Prize.<br><br>One of the greatest minds.

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• AD

  @AdmiralBob · 12 years ago

  The best part is when he puts up an illustration and the camera refuses to switch to it in preference to showing him looking down at something we will never see and point all sorts of things out.

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• CH

  @chompchompnomnom4256 · 10 months ago

  Everyone else his age who are in the crowd are asleep and Roger is killing it on the stage.

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• EL

  @EloiseDecember · 13 years ago

  I LOVE his drawings. &nbsp;So much more friendly than just one more powerpoint presentation.

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• JA

  @japandata · 13 years ago

  Absolutely fascinating. I&apos;ve struggled for years to read and understand these concepts, and Penrose spouts them off like their his children&apos;s names. Wonderful presentation.

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• SA

  @sandweged · 13 years ago

  I hope when I am an old man I&apos;ll be able to go to lectures like this and fall asleep in the first row like those guys. &nbsp;Seems like a good life.

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• ME

  @MemoryException · 5 years ago

  Audience: Will copies of the stack be available after the presentation?<br>Penrose: No I only drew the one.

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• VI

  @Vito_Tuxedo · 4 months ago

  Well, I came here from the future (May, 2026) at which time the analysis of the CMB (which had not yet been done at the time of this lecture) has already been done twice, the second one of which corroborates Sir Roger’s CCC hypothesis to a level of 99.5% probability of being correct. That is, the circles predicted by CCC have been found to exist, which means that CCC is no longer a hypothesis; it is an empirically corroborated theory. It’s wonderful to see this early presentation before that certainty existed! Thanks for posting it!

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• KI

  @KilgoreTroutAsf · 8 years ago

  I love old-style lectures with acetate slides. Death to powerpoint!

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• ΜΙ

  @ΜιχαήλΣάπκας · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YYWUIxGdl4&amp;t=2128">35:28</a> if you knew that Roger Penrose would get a nobel ten years later you wouldn&apos;t sleep.

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• JO

  @JosephStern · 13 years ago

  Penrose is a bit eccentric, but I don&apos;t know that I&apos;ve ever seen a better explainer of complex ideas. And I absolutely love his old-fashioned hand-drawn transparencies, which I think really show his enormous love of teaching.

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