The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316016414ISBN-10:316016411UPC:9780316016414Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Physics, Space ScienceBook Topic:Astrophysics, CosmologySize:8.22 x 5.50 x 1.28 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCA6TBM3YY
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316016414ISBN-10:316016411UPC:9780316016414Book Category:ScienceBook Subcategory:History, Physics, Space ScienceBook Topic:Astrophysics, CosmologySize:8.22 x 5.50 x 1.28 inchesWeight:0.9215Product ID:SCA6TBM3YY
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...
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