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

Author: Leonard Susskind Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon OpenLibrary eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316016407 9780316016414 0316016403 0316016411

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. Similar books: Beyond Einstein by Michio Kaku Knocking on Heaven's Door by Lisa Randall The God Particle by Leon Lederman The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene New Theories of Everything by John D. Barrow In Search of the Edge of Time by John Gribbin The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know by Joanne Baker Superforce by Paul Davies Warped Passages by Lisa Randall The Matchbox That Ate a Forty-Ton Truck by Marcus Chown The Cosmic Code by Heinz R. Pagels Physics for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson The Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman