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  2. Penrose stairs - Wikipedia

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    The Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1937 [1] [2] ...

  3. Penrose diagram - Wikipedia

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    Penrose diagram of an infinite Minkowski universe, horizontal axis u, vertical axis v. In theoretical physics, a Penrose diagram (named after mathematical physicist Roger Penrose) is a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime through a conformal treatment of infinity.

  4. Penrose process - Wikipedia

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    The Penrose process (also called Penrose mechanism) is theorised by Sir Roger Penrose as a means whereby energy can be extracted from a rotating black hole. [1] [2] [3] The process takes advantage of the ergosphere – a region of spacetime around the black hole dragged by its rotation faster than the speed of light, meaning that from the point of view of an outside observer any matter inside ...

  5. Penrose transform - Wikipedia

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    Abstractly, the Penrose transform operates on a double fibration of a space Y, over two spaces X and Z. In the classical Penrose transform, Y is the spin bundle, X is a compactified and complexified form of Minkowski space (which as a complex manifold is (,)) and Z is the twistor space (which is ).

  6. Rotating black hole - Wikipedia

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    [7] [8] This can happen through the Penrose process inside the black hole's ergosphere, in the volume outside its event horizon. [9] In some cases of energy extraction, a rotating black hole may gradually reduce to a Schwarzschild black hole, the minimum configuration from which no further energy can be extracted, although the Kerr black hole's ...

  7. Conformal cyclic cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) is a cosmological model in the framework of general relativity and proposed by theoretical physicist Roger Penrose. [1] [2] [3] In CCC, the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future timelike infinity (i.e. the latest end of any possible timescale evaluated for any point in space) of each previous iteration being identified with the Big Bang ...

  8. World line - Wikipedia

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    The concept of a "world line" is distinguished from concepts such as an "orbit" or a "trajectory" (e.g., a planet's orbit in space or the trajectory of a car on a road) by inclusion of the dimension time, and typically encompasses a large area of spacetime wherein paths which are straight perceptually are rendered as curves in spacetime to show ...

  9. Penrose graphical notation - Wikipedia

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    Penrose graphical notation (tensor diagram notation) of a matrix product state of five particles. In mathematics and physics, Penrose graphical notation or tensor diagram notation is a (usually handwritten) visual depiction of multilinear functions or tensors proposed by Roger Penrose in 1971. [1]