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

Leonard Susskind (né en juin 1940) est professeur Felix Bloch de physique théorique à l'Université de Stanford et directeur du Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. Ses intérêts de recherche comprennent la théorie des cordes, la théorie quantique des champs, la mécanique statistique quantique et la cosmologie quantique. Il est membre de la National Academy of Sciences des États-Unis et de l'American Academy of Arts and Sciences, membre associé de la faculté du Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics du Canada et professeur distingué du Korea Institute for Advanced Study.

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