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September 2009
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Grand Unified Theory

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Will we ever be able to make computers that think and feel? If not, why not? And what has all this got to do with tiles? Plus talks to Sir Roger Penrose about all this and more.

Tags: tessellation : aperiodic tiling : Grand Unified Theory : quantum mechanics : Turing test : artificial intelligence : complex number : human consciousness : non-algorithmic thought : non-recursive mathematics


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Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Professor Gerardus 't Hooft has always been fascinated by the mathematical mysteries of nature. He tells Plus about his early life, and what our Universe might really be like.

Tags: knot : particle physics : game of Life : Grand Unified Theory


This issue of Plus is a special, marking the occasion of Stephen Hawking's 60th birthday. Plus attended his Birthday Conference in Cambridge, where we interviewed some of the world's most influential mathematicians and physicists.

Tags: gravity : cosmology : curvature of space : Grand Unified Theory : black hole : Big Bang : quantum mechanics : general relativity : relativity : time travel : wormhole