The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a...
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Author: Leonard Susskind
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics by Susskind, Leonard

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

€28,17

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

€28,17
Author: Leonard Susskind
Format: Paperback
Language: English
What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did, and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize the import of Hawking's claims, but Leonard Susskind and Gerard t'Hooft realized the threat, and responded with a counterattack that changed the course of physics.

The Black Hole War is the thrilling story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking's revolutionary theories of black holes with their own sense of reality -- effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong, paying up, and Susskind and t'Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space.

A brilliant book about modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars and the deep mysteries of black holes, Leonard Susskind's account of the Black Hole War is mind-bending and exhilarating reading.

Author: Leonard Susskind
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.50w x 1.28d
ISBN: 9780316016414

About the Author
Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. The author of The Cosmic Landscape, he is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous prizes including the science writing prize of the American Institute of Physics for his Scientific American article on black holes. He lives in Palo Alto, California.

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