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Phrases 18
- Penrose stairsAn impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.
- Penrose staircaseSynonym of Penrose stairs: An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.
- Penrose stepsSynonym of Penrose stairs: An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.
- Penrose processA hypothetical process whereby the ergosphere of a black hole can be used as an energy source due to its angular momentum.
- Penrose-Lucas argumentAn argument based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, suggesting that the human mind cannot be computed on a Turing machine that works on Peano arithmetic because the latter cannot see the truth value of its Gödel sentence, while a human …
- Penrose diagrama two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime
- Penrose drainA flexible rubber tube used to prevent the buildup of fluid during surgery.
- Penrose mechanismSynonym of Penrose process: A hypothetical process whereby the ergosphere of a black hole can be used as an energy source due to its angular momentum.
- Penrose transformA complex analog of the Radon transform that relates massless fields on spacetime, or more precisely the space of solutions to massless field equations, to sheaf cohomology groups on complex projective space.
- Penrose triangleAn optical illusion depicting an impossible solid object made of three straight beams of square cross section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.
- Penrose diagramsplural of Penrose diagram: a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime
- Penrose drainsplural of Penrose drain: A flexible rubber tube used to prevent the buildup of fluid during surgery.
- Penrose transformsplural of Penrose transform: A complex analog of the Radon transform that relates massless fields on spacetime, or more precisely the space of solutions to massless field equations, to sheaf cohomology groups on complex projective space.
- Penrose trianglesplural of Penrose triangle: An optical illusion depicting an impossible solid object made of three straight beams of square cross section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.
- Penrose staircasesplural of Penrose staircase: An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.
- Lucas-Penrose argumentAlternative form of Penrose-Lucas argument: An argument based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem, suggesting that the human mind cannot be computed on a Turing machine that works on Peano arithmetic because the latter cannot see the truth …
- Carter-Penrose diagramSynonym of Penrose diagram: a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime
- Carter-Penrose diagramsplural of Carter-Penrose diagram: a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime
Compound words 2
- PencourtBarrie Penrose and Roger Courtiour collectively.
- PenrosianOf or relating to Edith Penrose (1914–1996), American-born British economist.