Nobel Lecture: Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

Black Holes, Cosmology, and Space-Time Singularities
Roger Penrose, University of Oxford, UK

[Thomasp]

To me, Roger Penrose should receive the Nobel just on his charts and scribbles alone lol :-) At 89 years old and giving such a remarkable lecture Penrose is a genius to say the least !!!!

[jmoreno]

The sheer speed and accuracy of this almost 90-year-old person's thought is breathtaking. The sound of this voice is perhaps the sound of our greatest living mind.

[wanwil]

Impressed with how Penrose is still able to carry himself at his age. Still an absolutely clear mind,

[robjohnston]

Almost equally amazing is that Sir Roger and his father INVENTED the "never-ending staircase" that goes both up and down -- made most famous in the drawings of MC Escher.
I had assumed that this "staircase" was an ancient concept or, if not, that Escher had invented it.
In fact, after visiting an Escher exhibition in Europe, soon after the end of WW2, the Penroses -- on the train back to England -- decided to come up with something "Escheresque" -- which they did, quite quickly!
Penrose Snr published it in a psychology journal, then sent it to Escher who, of course, was impressed and excited by it, so incorporated it in drawings, and adapted it into other forms -- like the "never-ending waterfall."
Sir Roger does not get nearly enough credit for his incredibly inventive visual imagination!

[TheJonix]

I could listen to Sir Roger for hours. CCC is a very fascinating theoy

[ianmarshall]

The enlightenment just keeps giving, well done Roger Penrose and all you who add to the wealth of human knowledge and understanding of nature .

[SerenityReceiver]

The speed stresses me out...impressive for any age. Enjoy him a lot in a long form format. 🙏

[AnaBagayan]

Congratulations to Penrose and thank you for this lecture. It's brilliant, I loved it!

[KeithRowley]

Penrose - absolutely awe-inspiring. An intellect of true penetration and creativity.

[sourceoflife]

WHOOOO, I UNDERSTAND WHY HE IS A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER. COMPLEX HOWEVER SIR ROGER PENROSE MAKES IT EASY TO LISTEN. LOVELY PICTURES TOO THANKS

[keithharbaugh]

Thanks to Penrose for his thoughts, and to the creators of this video for the excellent job they did with presenting his graphics.
BTW, it was interesting that all his graphics were hand drawn vice computer generated.
I was sorry that he was obviously rushing through his presentation; could not such a worthy talk be allowed a full hour vice thirty minutes?

[Youremywifenkwdave]

Amazing talk and makes perfect sense. I'm awaiting the alternative explanations to the anomalies in the CMBR allowing us to see previous eons.

[christofferjevring]

I love that, given 30 minutes only for a Nobel talk expected to reach a wide audience, he rushes through the ideas that won him the Nobel Prize, only to spend the remainder explaining and arguing for his much more recent radical cosmological theory.

[Eztoez]

Most of what he described went right over my head from the start, but my gosh, what a mind this man has. On a par with Feynman and Dirac.

[imgayasheck]

Great lecture Dr. Roger Penrose. If you had more time you could have said something about twistor theory ;)

[TheLookingsunset]

Congratulations to all winners! I am somewhat depressed that I will never achieve anything of that magnitude

[kamaldey]

Thank you very much, Sir. All the problems are hidden in the singularity.

[flobbie]

Penrose, always putting some shapes together.

[erawanpencil]

Sir Roger articulates his descriptions in such an evocative way.... he almost implies a second way or third way of looking at an (apparently) single mathematical fact. Phrasing the singularity as a 'contradiction' is very thought provoking!

[pegasusapollosson]

I wish I had his energy... RIGHT NOW in my 30's!!!!