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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
Twistor theory originated from my realization that light rays can be represented by points on a five-dimensional boundary, allowing for a global description of space-time.
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The 21st Century’s Greatest Living Scientist | Roger Penrose
@ Curt Jaimungal
09/29/24
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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
Twistor theory can be applied in complex space-time, particularly useful for quantum theory involving wave functions.
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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
Twistor theory, which I started in 1963, has had many developments and has spread interest in different areas of physics.
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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
The concept of twistors introduces a new kind of curved twistor, which is essential for understanding complex solutions in physics, but it also leads to inherent confusion in the theory.
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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
I offer ambitious frameworks like twistor theory that could potentially unify quantum theory with general relativity.
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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
Twistors are inherently chiral, meaning they have a built-in chirality that reflects the nature of particles like photons.
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Janna Levin
05/05/25
@ Lex Fridman
Spacetime can be visualized as a four-dimensional construct where time is treated as another dimension, but as three-dimensional beings, we struggle to fully comprehend this concept, including the curvature of spacetime caused by mass and energy. While I can mathematically suppress one of the spatial dimensions and draw it, we misrepresent spacetime in our drawings, even though we understand the rules for adding distances on this misrepresentation.
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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
The positive-negative frequency idea in twistor theory was something I learned from Engelbert Schuching, emphasizing the importance of splitting field amplitudes in quantum field theory.
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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
I see the restriction of my theory to four dimensions as a strength, as it ties directly to the physical world rather than abstract mathematics.
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Roger Penrose
09/29/24
@ Curt Jaimungal
I realized that the Robinson Congruence of rays, which describes light rays, has six degrees of freedom, while light rays themselves have only five degrees of freedom.