Nobel laureate Roger Penrose is widely held to be one of the most brilliant living physicists for his wide-ranging work from black holes to cosmology. And then there’s his idea about how consciousness is caused by quantum processes. Most...

The Nobel prize in physics this year went to black holes. Generally speaking. Specifically, it was shared by the astronomers who revealed to us the Milky Way’s central black hole and by Roger Penrose, who proved that in general...

Conformal Cyclic Cosmology is a story of the origin and the end of our universe from great mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose. It’s goes like this: the infinitely far future, when the universe has expanded exponentially to to an...

What can we make of a design that shows up over and over in disparate cultures throughout history? Theorist Terry Moore explores "Penrose tiling" -- two shapes that fit together in infinite combinations without ever repeating -- and...

Quantum consciousness. Is quantum mechanics responsible for consciousness and free will? There is a reductionist claim that the universe is a sophisticated kind of clock ruled by the laws of physics. Are we...

In the Copenhagen interpretation, which is what is typically taught to undergraduate students, particles are in superposition. What is superposition? In quantum mechanics, there is no equation that states...

How the Very Large Telescope works and how its discoveries about Sagittarius A* lead to a Nobel Physics Prize

Philosopher of science and unapologetic mathematical Platonist James Robert Brown, University of Toronto, highlights an impressive array of brilliant mathematical minds who also strongly believed that mathematical truths are “out there”,...

In this video, we explore the concept of impossible objects, focusing on the famous Penrose triangle. We learn about its origin, how it can be drawn in two dimensions but not exist in three dimensions, and how our brains interpret these...

El premio Nobel de Física de 2020 ha sido para los agujeros negros! Para su estudio teórico, pero también para su caracterización y observación en el centro de nuestra propia galaxia. Pero, ¿por qué se ha dado este premio? ¿Cuáles fueron...