The fourteenth Sir Nevill Mott Lecture was given by Professor Sir Roger Penrose FRS (Oxford University) on Wednesday 11th March 2009 on
Gravity and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
In a wide-ranging and thought-provoking tour through some of the deepest puzzles in physics, he presented his ideas on the measurement problem in quantum mechanics and how it may be resolved through the action of matter on space-time, on the second law of thermodynamics and its relation to cosmological artrow of time, on information and black holes and other such matters.
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