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is Penrose a crank?

Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 07:20:15 2019 No.11180255 View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2019 07:34:06 No.11180276 Report

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>>11180255
no. he’s got some cranky tendencies regarding his “mug consciousness” shit but that lies somewhere on the crank spectrum that is worse than ‘t Hooft but much better than say Josephson.

old geniuses are allowed to be a little cranky without getting totally written off as pseuds. heck, once you have tenure, what are they gonna do to you?

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2019 07:36:50 No.11180281 Report

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>>11180255
Not at all. Careerist physicists are too caught up in banging their secretaries and angling for promotion to appreciate Penrose's insights.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2019 07:40:02 No.11180283 Report

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>>11180281
> banging their secretaries
in today’s world that’s too dangerous given metoo. unironically it is safer to bang PhD students since at least they belong to the academic deans as opposed to having HR to complain to

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2019 07:50:21 No.11180298 Report

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he's probably the most distinguished general relativity physicist after Einstein..i can't think anyone that comes close to his accomplishments in Gravitation?

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2019 07:56:45 No.11180304 Report

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>>11180298
i would say he faces stiff competition from de Witt and also somewhat from Kerr and Kruzkal. Penrose’s contributions beyond his diagrams were more in that quantum/GR intersection area, not just relativist stuff, which he has a lot to owe to Hawking for

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2019 07:57:16 No.11180305 Report

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>>11180255
He's just some old white guy.

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2019 07:58:27 No.11180308 Report

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>>11180304
*Kruskal (Martin)

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Anonymous Wed 27 Nov 2019 08:18:50 No.11180329 Report

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>Hawking
not a significant contributor to modern physics, just a popular media personality. you haven't exposed yourself to any of his academic work, you like him because you saw him on the simpsons.

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