On Jul 15, 3:03 pm, Pentcho Valev wrote:
http://royalsociety.org/news.asp?id=7877
"Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS has been awarded the Royal Society's
Copley medal the world's oldest prize for scientific achievement for
his exceptional contributions to geometry and mathematical physics.
Sir Roger, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Oxford, has made outstanding contributions to general
relativity theory and cosmology, most notably for his work on black
holes and the Big Bang.....Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society
said: "Roger has been producing original and important scientific
ideas for half a century. His work is characterised by exceptional
geometrical and physical insight. He applied new mathematical
techniques to Einstein's theory, and led the renaissance in
gravitation theory in the 1960s."

This "Sir Roger" should have been awarded the title of Doctor Honoris
Causa Perduta. His most important discovery coincides with Einstein's
1954 confession:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~tweb/00001/
Roger Penrose: "I had, for a good many years earlier, been of the
opinion that the SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM picture of reality would prove
inadequate on some small scale."

http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/pdf...09145525ca.pdf
Albert Einstein: "I consider it entirely possible that physics cannot
be based upon the field concept, that is on CONTINUOUS structures.
Then nothing will remain of my whole castle in the air, including the
theory of gravitation, but also nothing of the rest of contemporary
physics."

Of course, money does not always go from Sir Martin to Sir Roger.
Sometimes it goes from Sir Roger to Sir Martin:

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/3470
"The prize consists of a gold medal and $500,000....Laureates of the
Gruber Cosmology Prize:....2001: Martin Rees for his extraordinary
intuition in unraveling the complexities of the universe.....The Prize
recipients are chosen by the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board. Its
members a Jacqueline Bergeron, Institut d’Astrophysique-CNRS; Peter
Galison, Harvard University; Ronald Ekers, Australia Telescope
National Facility - CSIRO; Andrei Linde, Stanford University; Julio F.
Navarro, University of Victoria; James Peebles, Princeton University;
Roger Penrose, University of Oxford...."

Some members of the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board did not want to
give so much money to Sir Martin because at that time Sir Martin
presented himself as a revolutionary that would rewrite Divine
Albert's Divine Theory and even reject Einstein's 1905 false light
postulate some day:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/519406/posts
September 9 2001. "A GROUP of astronomers and cosmologists has warned
that the laws thought to govern the universe, including Albert
Einsteins theory of relativity, must be rewritten. The group, which
includes Professor Stephen Hawking and Sir Martin Rees, the astronomer
royal, say such laws may only work for our universe but not in others
that are now also thought to exist.....AMONG THE IDEAS FACING REVISION
IS EINSTEINS BELIEF THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT MUST ALWAYS BE THE SAME -
186,000 miles a second in a vacuum.....Rees, Hawking and others are so
concerned at the impact of such ideas that they recently organised a
private conference in Cambridge for more than 30 leading
cosmologists."

However Sir Roger explained to the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board
that Sir Martin had been misled by current fashion and in fact had no
intention to rewrite Divine Albert's Divine Theory, let alone reject
Einstein's 1905 false light postulate. Serenity was reestablished and
the Cosmology Selection Advisory Board gave the money to Sir Martin.

Pentcho Valev