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Turing Machine Gives Order to Chaotic Penrose Universe

Posted August 29, 2012 11:43 AM

From New Scientist - Online news:

A theoretical computer has booted up for the first time in a constantly shifting mathematical playing field based on Penrose tiles

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Usbport Guru Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Trantor Posts: 5363 Good Answers: 647	#1 Re: Turing Machine Gives Order to Chaotic Penrose Universe 08/29/2012 12:45 PM
	Stephen Hawking gets a lot of press for being brainy - and deserves it - but my vote for smartest guy on the planet would go to Roger Penrose. Aside from all of his work in theoretical physics - black holes, relativity, quantum mechanics - the list goes on for a while, he was also responsible for the 'impossible objects' that M C Escher used in his artwork. And of course, he invented the unique, non-repeating, tiling pattern shown in the picture. __________________ Whiskey, women -- and astrophysics. Because sometimes a problem can't be solved with just whiskey and women.
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cwarner7_11 Guru Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Panama Posts: 4273 Good Answers: 213	#2 In reply to #1 Re: Turing Machine Gives Order to Chaotic Penrose Universe 08/30/2012 3:25 AM
	I agree with your assessment of Penrose- in fact, I find his writings much more accessible than hawking's...
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