| Roger Penrose: Collected Works, Volume 5: 1990-1996 Contributor(s): Penrose, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0199219400 ISBN-13: 9780199219407 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $289.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2010 Annotation: Professor Sir Roger Penrose is one of the truly original thinkers of our time and has made several remarkable contributions to science from quantum physics and theories of human consciousness to relativity theory and observations on the structure of the universe in over 240 scientific publications. Here his works, spanning 50 years of science and including his previously unpublished theses, have been collected and arranged chronologically over six volumes, each with an introduction from the author. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational - Mathematics - Science | Reference |
| Dewey: 530.15 |
| LCCN: 2010926298 |
| Physical Information: 1.86" H x 7.65" W x 9.65" (4.46 lbs) 880 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |