The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Jul 2008 · Hachette UK
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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.
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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Jorge Londoño
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April 27, 2019
Excellent description of how the information loss paradox was solve and the holographic principle.
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September 29, 2021
Ghi Chu: *Ho Van Tam* "DNA&RNA" Lo den la mot mo hinh duy nhat de xac dinh tat ca moi linh vuc hien tai de phan tich ra 2 muc tieu de roi chon ra 1/2 muc tieu ma mo phong Lo Den de phan tich.! Do la viec phan tich 2 chon mot, phan vo dung no khong the thot ra duoc o vi tri"Lo Den" phan con lai1/2 duoc thai ra do la phan huu dung de tai tao ra cac thien the moi do la viec xoay vong theo nguyen tat o toan thoi gian vi vay nen ta khong kho de hinh dung ra tat ca van duoc sinh ra o nhanh nao o tung giai doan o tronh khoan thoi da qua con khong gian la phan bao phu het tat moi cau truc cua no do la phan ma toi da nhan thuc duoc no la nhu the tren tat ca phan chuyen dong trong khoa hoc ngay nay.! Chu Thich: [  *Ho Van Tam*_"DNA&RNA".!]
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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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