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

Leonard Susskind (nato nel giugno 1940) è il professore di fisica teorica Felix Bloch alla Stanford University e direttore dello Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. I suoi interessi di ricerca includono la teoria delle stringhe, la teoria quantistica dei campi, la meccanica statistica quantistica e la cosmologia quantistica. È membro della National Academy of Sciences degli Stati Uniti e dell'American Academy of Arts and Sciences, membro associato della facoltà del Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics del Canada e un illustre professore del 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 da 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.