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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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  • Title The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
  • Author Leonard Susskind
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little, Brown Paperbacks, New York
  • Publication date 2009-07-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780316016414 / 0316016411
  • Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.22 x 5.5 x 1.28 in (20.88 x 13.97 x 3.25 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Space and time, Quantum theory
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007048355
  • Dewey Decimal Code 530.12

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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