Roger Penrose

[skr 1]

If you are interested in that sort of stuff he is
doing a book tour and he is a *great* speaker.

( OK, minor sanity check, I'm a 63 year old
( guy on a skydiving web site gushing about
( a mathematician .. glancing cautiously around ..
(
( is that OK? Is anybody going for a monitor
( with a butterfly net?
(
( No, couple strange looks, but I think I'm OK.


He's funny as hell and he does a really good
job of conveying something of his inner, intuitive
process.

That's interesting to me because I was a math
major long ago and have had an off and on
lifetime hobby of mulling Relativity and a couple
other things.

One thing that gets me is how unbelievably smart
these guys are. I can take something they have
done, and after a lot of thought and mull and pondering
I may get it at some level, but to have figured it
out in the first place ... it's just beyond me.

Skr

[SkydivingNurse 0]

Gotta link to his touring schedule? I'm a bit of a science nerd and enjoy that sorto thing.

[kallend 2,148]

That's SIR Roger Penrose, Skratch.

Only one weak point in his resume - he left Cambridge to go to Oxford.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

[skr 1]

> Gotta link to his touring schedule?

No, I looked around in google a little bit,
it must be out there somewhere.

If you do find it and go, go early. I went
a couple hours early so I could hang out
and look at books.

An hour and a half before the start I heard
them setting up so I went and looked. The
first row was already full and the second
row was half full.

It was worth the wait.

Skr

[skr 1]

>That's SIR Roger Penrose

I know, but we're over here in the colonies you know.

Actually, while I was at Caltech I got to see Richard
Feynman talk a couple times, and once got to see
Paul Dirac standing there looking like nobody in
particular.

I'm not moved to say sir to anybody because of their
position, but I would say sir to these guys any time.


>Only one weak point in his resume - he left Cambridge to go to Oxford.

:-) :-)

I shall savor the full esoteric flavor of that remark.

Skr

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I got to see Richard Feynman talk a couple times, and once got to see Paul Dirac standing there looking like nobody in particular.

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I met Richard Petty once....

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[skr 1]

>I met Richard Petty once....

Ha! When I was in grades 5-12 my father's job
moved us to North Carolina and for us guys some
of our most admired role model / heroes were those
guys driving those funny looking cars whose back
ends stood way up when they were empty.

I never met any of them, but I did manage to drink
some really fiery, clear as water, cargo a few times.

Skr

[kallend 2,148]

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>That's SIR Roger Penrose

I know, but we're over here in the colonies you know.

Actually, while I was at Caltech I got to see Richard
Feynman talk a couple times, and once got to see
Paul Dirac standing there looking like nobody in
particular.

I'm not moved to say sir to anybody because of their
position, but I would say sir to these guys any time.


>Only one weak point in his resume - he left Cambridge to go to Oxford.

:-) :-)

I shall savor the full esoteric flavor of that remark.

Skr

One of the nice things about being a prof. is the interesting people you get to meet. I was in college with Hawking at Cambridge, and over the years got to meet Teller, Frisch, and Laureates James "DNA" Watson, Brian Josephson, Arno Penzias, Steinberger, Lederman, Bragg, Mott and Todd.

But a guy I was with in high school made more money than all of them combined. He became bass player in The Rolling Stones.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.