Nobel laureate Roger Penrose

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Doubts over whether the black hole existed at all — this time the Nobel Committee took Sir Roger Penrose's Nobel Prize in Physics to the forefront of the controversy. No, he's not enjoying the prize, he's got two more. They are Andrea Gage and Reinhard Gengel. Without summing up the contributions of the two of them, I cannot theoretically measure their contributions accurately. That's why I talk about Roger Penrose. Although not a scientist of his size is still alive, it was beyond my expectations to win the Nobel Prize in Physics each year. Images of black holes, supremacy of quantum computers, and density functional theory, which are currently the basis of the calculations required to design nanoparticles. From this point of view, the black hole won the competition. However, this is not a photo shoot for Pinterest, you need to know exactly what you are shooting for. That's where Sir Roger's credit goes. Just as Sir Peter Higgs was the first to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the Higgs-boson, so the modern discussion of the black hole revolves around Roger Penrose. So his Nobel laureate is just like repeating the previous events.

At the university where I did my PhD, Roger Penrose often came there as a visiting professor. While there, I had the opportunity to see him twice. The four months he spent there were spent researching the foundations of quantum theory. In quantum mechanics a version relies on the formulation of wave functions. In this version, the function associated with the system becomes 'no' as soon as some measurements are made on the system. The answer to why this function is destroyed is not in the warehouse of quantum mechanics. Roger Penrose's idea is that there is an invisible hand of gravity in this whole incident. However, most physicists do not agree with Penrose's idea. Roger Penrose has been following this question for over fifty years. I would like to take this opportunity to tell a story about the famous sculptor Michelangelo. He was then carving his masterpiece ‘David’ sculpture. At this time a friend of his came to visit his studio before traveling abroad for a long time. Friends see the work of art almost finished. Five years have passed since then. At the end of the tour, the friend came to see Michelangelo again. You see, Michelangelo is hammering in the same place of the statue.

‘Are you rebuilding it?’ The friend asked in surprise.

Michelangelo shook his head and replied, "Look carefully, you can see the folds in the leg muscles, I have added the eyelids, I have fine-tuned the folds of the fingers ..." This is what Roger Penrose did. I have had the opportunity to hear his interpretation of one of his favorite quantum theorems in three ways in three places. But I never dared to question him. The lack of my mathematical knowledge is more responsible for this. Roger Penrose's original identity as a mathematician, despite winning the Nobel Prize in Physics. His early studies were in algebraic geometry. His father was the renowned psychologist Lionel Penrose. The two were known for formulating the idea of ​​the Penrose Triangle. Penrose came to work with Dennis Shiyama after completing his doctorate. There he began to apply the new mathematical techniques he had learned to the general theory of relativity. Theoretical physicists were not at all familiar with his techniques. For that, they had to gain momentum to understand the results of Penrose. With modern mathematics, we physicists sometimes laugh that what is 12 divided by 3? The more important question for mathematicians is to find the answer, is there any answer at all? And if so, what are the answers?

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