The Black Hole War
My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
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2009
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-01641-4 (ISBN)
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-01641-4 (ISBN)
The father of string theory recounts his paradigm-shifting debate with Stephen Hawking over the nature of black holes.
At the beginning of the 21st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory - the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy. The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important. But mysteries remain. One of the biggest involved black holes. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that anything sucked in a black hole was lost forever. For three decades, Leonard Susskind and Hawking clashed over the answer to this problem. Finally, in 2004, Hawking conceded.
THE BLACK HOLE WAR will explain the mind-blowing science that finally won out and the emergence of a new paradigm that argues that the world - your home, your breakfast, you - is actually a hologram projected from the edges of space.
At the beginning of the 21st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory - the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy. The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important. But mysteries remain. One of the biggest involved black holes. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that anything sucked in a black hole was lost forever. For three decades, Leonard Susskind and Hawking clashed over the answer to this problem. Finally, in 2004, Hawking conceded.
THE BLACK HOLE WAR will explain the mind-blowing science that finally won out and the emergence of a new paradigm that argues that the world - your home, your breakfast, you - is actually a hologram projected from the edges of space.
Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. 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.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.11.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Integrated: 60, b/w photos |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 208 mm |
| Gewicht | 488 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik | |
| Schlagworte | Hawking, Stephen W. • Quantenmechanik • Schwarze Löcher |
| ISBN-10 | 0-316-01641-1 / 0316016411 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-316-01641-4 / 9780316016414 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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