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ROGER PENROSE: COLLECTED WORKS
VOLUME 5: 1990-1996 |
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Roger Penrose |
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Hardback |
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£237.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199219400 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199219407 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 October, 2010 |
| Pages: |
880 |
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The fifth volume of six that bring together 50 years of the work of Professor Sir Roger Penrose |
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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 |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
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