• The NewmanPenrose (NP) formalism is a set of notation developed by Ezra T. Newman and Roger Penrose for general relativity (GR). Their notation is an...
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  • points in spacetime Penrose–Terrell effect, visual distortion according to the special theory of relativity NewmanPenrose formalism, a set of notation...
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    of chess Grandmaster Jonathan Penrose. Their stepfather was the mathematician and computer scientist Max Newman. Penrose spent World War II as a child...
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    In theoretical physics, a Penrose diagram (named after mathematical physicist Roger Penrose) is a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations...
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    Air Force Base. In 1962, together with Roger Penrose, he introduced the powerful NewmanPenrose formalism for working with spinorial quantities in general...
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  • directions at each point of spacetime. It is a rewriting of the NewmanPenrose formalism which respects the covariance of Lorentz transformations preserving...
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  • In the NewmanPenrose (NP) formalism of general relativity, independent components of the Ricci tensors of a four-dimensional spacetime are encoded into...
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    The Arnowitt–Deser–Misner (ADM) formalism (named for its authors Richard Arnowitt, Stanley Deser and Charles W. Misner) is a Hamiltonian formulation of...
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  • with radiation, and are the basis of the NewmanPenrose formalism and the GHP formalism. The standard formalism of differential geometry (and general relativity)...
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  • Schwarzschild metric, using the Newman–Janis algorithm by NewmanPenrose formalism (also known as the spin–coefficient formalism), Ernst equation, or Ellipsoid...
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  • The Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems (after Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking) are a set of results in general relativity that attempt to answer the...
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  • Oliver Penrose FRS FRSE (born 6 June 1929) is a British theoretical physicist. He is the son of the scientist Lionel Penrose and brother of the mathematical...
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  • (Neugebauer–Meinel dust disk solution), Ezra Ted Newman (NewmanPenrose formalism, Kerr–Newman black hole solution, Janis–Newman–Winicour solution, NUT vacuum, RT spacetimes...
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  • Sanjeev; Dadhich, Naresh (1985). "Energetics of the Kerr–Newman black hole by the penrose process". Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 6 (2): 85–100...
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  • General Relativity, type O spacetimes are conformally flat. The NewmanPenrose formalism is often used in practice for the classification. Consider the...
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  • The BSSN formalism (Baumgarte, Shapiro, Shibata, Nakamura formalism) is a formalism of general relativity that was developed by Thomas W. Baumgarte, Stuart...
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  • is the trace of E L - B2. In terms of the Weyl scalars in the NewmanPenrose formalism, the principal invariants of the Weyl tensor may be obtained by...
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    Laws of Physics is a 1989 book by the mathematical physicist Roger Penrose. Penrose argues that human consciousness is non-algorithmic, and thus is not...
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  • The Penrose–Lucas argument is a logical argument partially based on a theory developed by mathematician and logician Kurt Gödel. In 1931, he proved that...
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    The original problem was first solved in 1958 by Roger Penrose using ellipses to form the Penrose unilluminable room. He showed that there exists a room...
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    which a singularity (covered by an event horizon) would be formed. The Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems define a singularity to have geodesics that...
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  • as the Penrose–Terrell effect, the Terrell–Penrose effect or the Lampa–Terrell–Penrose effect, but not the Lampa effect. Terrell's and Penrose's papers...
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  • Shirley Victoria Penrose Hodgson, FRCP, FRSB (born 22 February 1945) is a British geneticist. Hodgson studied at Somerville College, Oxford. She worked...
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  • introduction to the necessary mathematics Poisson 2004. For the Penrose process, see Penrose 1969 Bekenstein 1973, Bekenstein 1974 The fact that black holes...
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    late 1960s Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking used global techniques to prove that singularities appear generically. For this work, Penrose received half...
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  • method of analysing spacetimes using tetrads, in particular, in the NewmanPenrose formalism is important. Another appealing feature of spinors in general relativity...
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  • of general relativity and many alternatives to it, the post-Newtonian formalism is a calculational tool that expresses Einstein's (nonlinear) equations...
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  • In the NewmanPenrose (NP) formalism of general relativity, Weyl scalars refer to a set of five complex scalars { Ψ 0 , Ψ 1 , Ψ 2 , Ψ 3 , Ψ 4 } {\displaystyle...
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    The diagrammatic notation can thus greatly simplify calculations. Roger Penrose described spin networks in 1971. Spin networks have since been applied...
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  • forward thinking. After winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020, Roger Penrose would credit the Oppenheimer–Snyder model as one of his inspirations for...
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