The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by: Leonard Susskind
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Dewey Decimal Number: 530.12
EAN: 9780316016407
ISBN: 0316016403
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: July 07, 2008
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Sales Rank: 6396
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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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.
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- Very interesting, at times taxing...This book explains well and understandably, why Prof. Hawking's view on black holes could not be entirely ... Read More
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- Learn about Physics and PhysicistsSusskind has such a lucid mind that he can't help but reveal personal foibles while giving us a window into ... Read More
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- Surprisingly well doneAt first I was put off by the simplicity of the narative. Appeared and felt like a book on physics simply dumbed ... Read More
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- Black HolesThe book discusses a problem. According to Hawking, when an object falls down a black hole (BH), all information ... Read More
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- General Relativity Meets Quantum MechanicsThere is a lot of physics contained in this excellent book - modern, cutting-edge theoretical physics, that is. In ... Read More
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