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'''Sir Roger Penrose:''' Yes. Well it's very interesting, partly from a personal point of view, because when I first heard about it, and a lot of it was on Conformal Supersymmetry, and I could see there was a lot of connection with Twistor Theory. The only thing I didn't like was you were led to these algebras which didn't commute and, well, the square of something was zero or something, whatever. I mean, they weren't the kind of Algebra that you needed in Twistor Theory, you needed Complex Analysis. But anyway, I visited Zumino at one point, and I was most intrigued because I could— | '''Sir Roger Penrose:''' Yes. Well it's very interesting, partly from a personal point of view, because when I first heard about it, and a lot of it was on Conformal Supersymmetry, and I could see there was a lot of connection with Twistor Theory. The only thing I didn't like was you were led to these algebras which didn't commute and, well, the square of something was zero or something, whatever. I mean, they weren't the kind of Algebra that you needed in Twistor Theory, you needed Complex Analysis. But anyway, I visited [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Zumino Zumino] at one point, and I was most intrigued because I could— | ||
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'''Sir Roger Penrose:''' You're thinking of the Lagrangian, yes. | '''Sir Roger Penrose:''' You're thinking of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian Lagrangian], yes. | ||
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'''Eric Weinstein:''' Well, that's, well, but the Oxford system, I mean, I don't have to make it so peculiar to Oxford, but you know, even if I think about, like a Nigel Hitchin, or Mason, I guess, has been in that system. | '''Eric Weinstein:''' Well, that's, well, but the Oxford system, I mean, I don't have to make it so peculiar to Oxford, but you know, even if I think about, like a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Hitchin Nigel Hitchin], or Mason, I guess, has been in that system. | ||
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'''Eric Weinstein:''' Let me just... One final thing. Have you been to the courtyard of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook, which is tiled with Penrose tiles? | '''Eric Weinstein:''' Let me just... One final thing. Have you been to the courtyard of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simons_Center_for_Geometry_and_Physics Simons Center for Geometry and Physics] at Stony Brook, which is tiled with Penrose tiles? | ||
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