Dave Stock
EARLY in his career, the University of Oxford mathematician Roger Penrose inspired the artist M. C. Escher to create , the visual illusion of a loop of staircase that seems to be eternally rising. It remains a fitting metaphor for Penrose’s ever enquiring mind. During his long career, he has collaborated with Stephen Hawking to uncover the secrets of the big bang, developed a quantum theory of consciousness with anaesthesiologist and won the for his prediction of regions where the gravitational field would be so intense that space-time itself would break…
