No individual save Albert Einstein has contributed more to relativity theory. Such has been the nature of the brickbats Penrose has faced. One colleague, Penrose said, responded during the conference's lunch break with the observation, "You're completely right, of course. (Penrose devotes much of the last four chapters of his book to this same argument and to an alternative model he sets up in string theory's absence, using a mathematical formalism Penrose invented called " twistors.") Penrose argued that the underlying assumption of string theory - that space-time consists of anywhere from 10 to 26 dimensions - is simply wrongheaded and unmotivated by either intuition or evidence.
In 2002, Penrose spoke at Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday celebration. Those fundamental physical effects that Penrose proposes in Road, some of which were first covered in his 1989 best-selling book, The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds and the Laws of Physics, are as controversial as they are bold.įor instance, despite the stampede of physicists today seeking to unify all physical theories under the aegis of string theory, Penrose thinks his colleagues are on a wild goose chase.
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