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    "event_id": 55,
    "archive": "2016-10-24 Roger Penrose",
    "vortex": {
        "url": "http:\/\/www.ub.uio.no\/kurs-arrangement\/arrangementer\/ureal\/2016\/161024RogerPenrose.html",
        "title": "Roger Penrose: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe",
        "location": "Realfagsbiblioteket, Vilhelm Bjerknes' hus",
        "date": "2016-10-24",
        "start_time": "2016-10-24T16:15:00+02:00",
        "end_time": "2016-10-24T18:00:00+02:00",
        "introduction": "Den verdensberømte matematikeren og fysikeren Sir Roger Penrose kommer til Universitetet i Oslo for å snakke om sin nyeste bok: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe. \n",
        "text": "Arrangementet streames direkte!\\n\\nGå ikke glipp av den verdensberømte Sir Roger Penrose når han besøker Realfagsbiblioteket ved Universitetet i Oslo! Sir Roger Penrose er forskerlegenden bak så fundamentale resultater som singularitetsteoremet, slingkvantegravitasjon, penrosediagrammet og penrosetessellering, der førstnevnte var et samarbeid med Stephen Hawking. Penrose er dessuten kjent som populærvitenskapelig forfatter bak bøker som The Nature of Space and Time, The Road to Reality og Shadows of the Mind. Nå er han i Oslo for å presentere sin nyeste bok: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe!\\n\\nLes mer om Sir Roger Penrose og om boka Fashion, Faith and Fantasy.\\n\\nSe vår miniutstilling i foajeen, der vi har stilt ut bøker og artikler skrevet av Sir Roger Penrose.\\n\\n \\n\\n \\n\\n",
        "organizers": [
            "Realfagsbiblioteket",
            "Matematisk institutt"
        ],
        "tags": [
            "Matematikk",
            "Science Debate",
            "Fysikk"
        ],
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            "title": "Roger Penrose: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe",
            "description": "Sir Roger Penrose presenting his newest book \"Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe\" at the University of Oslo, Norway.\n\nWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe?\n\nSurely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? In fact, acclaimed physicist and bestselling author Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are just as susceptible to these forces as anyone else.\n\nPenrose argues that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes productive and even essential in physics, may be leading today's researchers astray in three of the field's most important areas--string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology. Arguing that string theory has veered away from physical reality by positing six extra hidden dimensions, Penrose cautions that the fashionable nature of a theory can cloud our judgment of its plausibility. In the case of quantum mechanics, its stunning success in explaining the atomic universe has led to an uncritical faith that it must also apply to reasonably massive objects, and Penrose responds by suggesting possible changes in quantum theory. Turning to cosmology, he argues that most of the current fantastical ideas about the origins of the universe cannot be true, but that an even wilder reality may lie behind them. Finally, Penrose describes how fashion, faith, and fantasy have ironically also shaped his own work, from twistor theory, a possible alternative to string theory that is beginning to acquire a fashionable status, to \"conformal cyclic cosmology,\" an idea so fantastic that it could be called \"conformal crazy cosmology.\""
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