Fourteenth Sir Nevill Mott Lecture

Gravity and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

Professor Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 16.30, T0.03

Hosted by Department of Physics, Loughborough University

I argue that the measurement paradox of quantum mechanics (as most famously illustrated by "Schrödingers cat") will require a change in the basic structure of the theory when gravitational effects become of relevance. Evidence in support of this viewpoint ranges from Einstein's equivalence principle to Big-Bang cosmology, to the second law of thermodynamics, and to the "black-hole information paradox".

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The Sir Nevill Mott lecture series at Loughborough was inaugurated by Sir Nevill in 1995. Previous lectures

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Loughborough University
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