Roger Penrose

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to what other people might think.

I mean g it goes back I suppose to the

Singularity theorem I proved.

Which eventually got a Nobel Prize which was the

people were very puzzled.

Because of the quasars.

And they found these

Very bright objects, very distant objects, and people weren't even quite sure how far away they were.

They weren't sure that the redshift you saw was actually a cosmological redshift, or might it be some gravitational redshift or something like that.

There was a lot of puzzlement about it.

So it was at a time when there was a lot of confusion, I think, about what was going on.

And

I became interested in in this, but without holding a particular view of my own.

And I did learn what

about the um Oppenheimer Schneider collapse picture of a

Collapsing cloud of

Dust in fact it was.

And

This reached a singularity at the end, but

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