An Introduction to Black Holes, Information And The String Theory RevolutionAn Introduction to Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution pdf

Leonard Susskind (nacido en junio de 1940) es profesor Felix Bloch de física teórica en la Universidad de Stanford y director del Instituto de Física Teórica de Stanford. Sus intereses de investigación incluyen la teoría de cuerdas, la teoría cuántica de campos, la mecánica estadística cuántica y la cosmología cuántica. Es miembro de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias de los EE. UU. y de la Academia Estadounidense de Artes y Ciencias, miembro asociado de la facultad del Instituto Perimeter de Física Teórica de Canadá y profesor distinguido del Instituto Coreano de Estudios Avanzados.

An Introduction to Black Holes, Information And The String Theory RevolutionAn Introduction to Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution pdf por Leonard Susskind

Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Jacob Bekenstein's realization that black holes have entropy. Steven Hawking raised profound issues concerning the loss of information in black hole evaporation and the consistency of quantum mechanics in a world with gravity. For two decades these questions puzzled theoretical physicists and eventually led to a revolution in the way we think about space, time, matter and information. This revolution has culminated in a remarkable principle called "The Holographic Principle", which is now a major focus of attention in gravitational research, quantum field theory and elementary particle physics. Leonard Susskind, one of the co-inventors of the Holographic Principle as well as one of the founders of String theory, develops and explains these concepts.