At one point in Patchen Barss’s new biography of Roger Penrose, we find the author seated at a table in the Oxford flat of his subject, about to interview him for the first time. It is 2018. The ...

Quantum consciousness explores the potential connection between quantum mechanics and consciousness, questioning whether ...

Acclaimed English mathematical physicist Penrose (Cycles of Time) gets to the heart of modern physics’ problem with subjectivity in this insightful and provocative ...

The subtitle of Roger Penrose’s new book modestly promises “a complete guide to the laws of the universe”. Remarkably, it almost succeeds in delivering on this promise. Of course, no book – even one ...

One of the most intriguing speculative arguments in physics and computer science isn't really about physics or computer science at all. It's about the brain — or more precisely, about consciousness — ...

Roger Penrose has shared in the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution with models of Black Holes. Penrose has used the renewed attention to push his 30-year old concept of Hawking Points and ...

In 1998, Stephen Hawking laid 50-50 odds that the holy grail of physics, the elusive "theory of everything," was less than 20 years away. Around the same time, Hawking's renowned peer, collaborator ...