The Black Hole War
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.
480 pages, 9 editions
English edition · First published 2008 by Hachette · ISBN 9780316032698
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Editions
9 editions
English
- The Black Hole War · Hachette · 2008 · ISBN 9780316032698 This page
- The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics · Little, Brown · 2009 · ISBN 9780316016414
- The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics: Library Edition · Findaway World · 2009 · ISBN 9781433276439
- The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics · Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. · 2008 · ISBN 9781433243660
- The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics · Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. · 2008 · ISBN 9781433243691
- The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics · Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. · 2008 · ISBN 9781433243653
- The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics · Little, Brown · 2008 · ISBN 9780316016407
- The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics · Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. · 2008 · ISBN 9781433243677
- The Black Hole War: My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics · Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc. · 2008 · ISBN 9781433243684
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