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“The biggest mystery about a black hole is its uniqueness … you need to understand what’s going on.”
Research on the same problem as Dr. Hawking in the 1960s and 1970s … Chance to co-win if survived
“I didn’t do well on my math test when I was in school … I use power points but I hate them.”
British astrophysicist Roger Penrose, 89, a professor at the University of Oxford and one of the co-winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, said on the 6th (local time) that he heard the news of the award in a very unusual situation.
According to Reuters, Professor Penrose said, “I am very honored and happy to hear about the award this morning,” while meeting with reporters. “It was actually a bit unusual.”
I had to get out of the shower to hear the news of the award. “
Earlier, the Nobel Committee revealed that Professor Penrose showed that general relativity led to the formation of black holes.
When asked what the biggest mystery about black holes was, Professor Penrose cited singularities, which are at the center and where density and gravity become infinite.
“The most difficult problem is uniqueness,” he explained, “because we don’t know.”
“Black holes are blocking us from singularities,” he said.
“As matter collapses at the center, it expands beyond what you can think of, as it increases in density,” said Professor Penrose. “We have no idea how to describe the physics at the center.
“Because the density and the temperature are out of all the ranges.”
Professor Penrose emphasized that if humans want to understand the laws of physics in a deeper way, they need to know what is going on in the singularity.
The Daily The Times delivered the news of Professor Penrose’s award that day, saying that some of his achievements were due to collaboration with Dr. Stephen Hawking, who died in 2018.
As a result, his colleagues assessed that Hawking could have won the Nobel Prize if he had been alive.
The BBC said that every time the general public thought of a black hole, they were reminded of Dr Hawking, and Professor Penrose and Dr Hawking spent a lot of time researching the same problem from the late 1960s to the 1970s. .
They also assessed that their lives passed in parallel for many years and gained more attention through popular science.
Prof. Penrose, who discovered through mathematical calculations that the black hole was a direct result of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, however, had difficulty with mathematics when he was in school.
Professor Penrose said: “I have always been slow.
He was good at math, but he wasn’t good at taking tests, ”he recalled.
Professor Penrose explained: “You soon learned that if you gave me enough time, I could do well,” he said. “Basically, I started everything from scratch.”
Is there anything in the world that is difficult for Professor Penrose, a physical genius, to understand?
Professor Penrose said that he probably wouldn’t be able to make a good PowerPoint presentation and that this remains one of the concerns.
Professor Penrose said, “I hate PowerPoint.
It’s true, “he said,” I use it sometimes, but it’s always like a mess. “
/ yunhap news
