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Sir Nevill Mott Lecture 2009

 

 

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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Stephen Fletcher, Sir Roger Penrose, John Samson, Ken Parsons, Feo Kusmartsev

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Sir Roger Penrose and Feo Kusmartsev

Past and future Sir Nevill Mott lectures

 

 

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