Einstein's Amazing Theory of Gravity: Black Holes and Novel Ideas in Cosmology, Roger Penrose | LMS

Sir Roger Penrose giving his talk 'Einstein's Amazing Theory of Gravity: Black Holes and Novel Ideas in Cosmology', a talk on the subject of general relativity, in light of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's seminal paper "The Field Equations of Gravitation"

This lecture took place at 'What's Your Angle?' - a mathematics festival organised in collaboration between the London Mathematical Society and the Science Museum in November 2015.

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[swamihuman]

I have certainly been aware of Sir Roger Penrose, but have never seen him lecture. I really like his style: well-ordered, clear, concise, tempered, and insightful.

[timemechanic]

It's been a long time since someone got a Nobel Prize in Physics for work that is essentially Mathematical Physics - Dirac, or maybe Wigner, may be the last ones previously. Good to see that an individual scientist still gets rewarded for his creative genius, and not just CEOs of big experimental groups.

[transparent]

God I love Penrose. Such a delightful person to listen to. The fact that he ripped on Interstellar a bit makes him even more delightful lol

[LuciFeric]

Love how Sir Roger talks to himself, asks himself questions, then answers himself.

[Fosgen]

Only 91, 500 views after years. I can't believe how this brilliant material isn't more popular. We're clearly heading dark times.

[albat]

A million thanks for making this video! I loved every second of it: the explanations, the ideas, the drawings! They contain good wealth of food for thought for years.

[arnesaknussemm]

Good to see Sir Roger delivering his lecture using 150 year old technology.

[M.-.D]

So fantastic to see Sir Penrose win the Nobel Prize.

One of the greatest minds.

[Gringohuevon]

Old skool transparencies...brings back memories

[tenkins]

This is the third different topic I have heard him do. This is amazing

[lachy]

reading the comments has reminded me just how little the general public actually understand about physics, and just how many have an opinion

[lincyu]

wow most recent talk by Sir Penrose. such great moment of centenary of General Relativity celebrated with the revolutionary discovery of gravitational wave one of the last findings needed to prove the accuracy of the theory.

[saalimkhan]

In an interview he said, he could never grasp MS PowerPoint. He finds it difficult to use. Therefore, he uses Projection for his lectures and presentations.

[paulfrindle]

This is deeply fascinating. I can totally understand what he's saying - and I'm no expert! :-)

[m.s.a]

Thanks I loved the explanation and every thing I needed the info to impress my teacher and make her under stand the universe and also thanks again for making this I got 4+ marks on my exams keep the ur grind

[kevinslater]

Without the Intersteller Reference I would have thought this lecture occurred in 1979

[BartAlder]

I love that the lecture on spacetime geometry, which makes the point of Singh that spacetime geometry is really chronometry, the lecturer himself loses track of timelike curves at t = 29:51.

[alexneil]

You can tell by the video quality this made recently

[luudest]

Now I know why there are still so many overhead projectors standing around in universities 😂

[johnnym.wright]

33:44 image. Big bang. Or I imagine a pitcher of water being filled from the inside center and the overflow as the change of velocity u r discussing