Professor Sir Roger Penrose's work, spanning fifty years of science, with over five thousand pages and more than three hundred papers, has been collected together for the first time and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. Where relevant, individual papers also come with specific introductions or notes. Publication of The Emperor's New Mind (OUP 1989) had caused considerable debate and Penrose's responses are included in this volume. Arising from this came the idea that large-scale quantum coherence might exist within the conscious brain, and actual conscious experience would be associated with a reduction of the quantum state. Within this collection, Penrose also proposes that a twistor might usefully be regarded as a source (or 'charge') for a massless field of spin 3/2, suggesting that the twistor space for a Ricci-flat space-time might actually be the space of such possible sources. Towards the end of the volume, Penrose begins to develop a quite different approach to incorporating full general relativity into twistor theory. This period also sees the origin of the Diósi-Penrose proposal.
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The fifth volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Collection of works of one of the eminent mathematicians of the 20th Century Spanning fifty years of science Introduction from Professor Sir Roger Penrose Includes previously unpublished theses and Twistor Newsletter articles
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Collection of works of one of the eminent mathematicians of the 20th Century Spanning fifty years of science Introduction from Professor Sir Roger Penrose Includes previously unpublished theses and Twistor Newsletter articles
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ISBN
9780199219407
Publisert
2010
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Oxford University Press
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2060 gr
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248 mm
Bredde
196 mm
Dybde
48 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
880

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