Home / Series / Royal Institution Lectures / Aired Order / Season 2017 / Episode 7

Fashion, faith and fantasy in the new physics of the Universe + Q&A (Roger Penrose)

Can the following of fashion, blind faith, or flights of fantasy have anything seriously to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely not - but Roger Penrose argues that researchers working at the extreme frontiers of physics are as susceptible to these forces as anyone else, and that fashion, faith, and fantasy, while sometimes highly productive in physics, may be leading today's researchers astray in three of that field's most important areas—string theory, quantum mechanics, and cosmology.

English
  • Originally Aired March 14, 2017
  • Network YouTube
  • Created January 3, 2019 by
    Administrator admin
  • Modified January 3, 2019 by
    Administrator admin
Name Type Role
Roger Penrose Guest Star