I was indeed very slow as a youngster.

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I'm pretty tenacious when it comes to problems.

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The basic theory in twistor theory is not to add extra dimensions.

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As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

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Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

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But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

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Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion.

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If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

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People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

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My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

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