The Black Hole Wars, Leonard Susskind
The Black Hole Wars, Leonard Susskind
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The Black Hole Wars
My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

Author: Leonard Susskind

Narrator: Ray Porter

Unabridged: 12 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2008

Categories: Nonfiction


Synopsis

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it didand in doing so put at risk everything we know about the fundamental laws of the universe. 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 Hawkings theories of black holes with their own sense of realityan effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong and Susskind and t Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space.

About Leonard Susskind

Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University. The author of The Cosmic Landscape, he is a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recipient of numerous prizes, including the science writing prize of the American Institute of Physics for his article in Scientific Americanon black holes.


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