The Black Hole War 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.

The Black Hole War pdf da Leonard Susskind

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 a counterattack that changed the course of physics. THE BLACK HOLE WAR is the thrilling story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking's revolutionary theories of black holes with their own sense of reality-effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong, paying up, and Susskind and t'Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space.A brilliant book about modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars and the deep mysteries of black holes, Leonard Susskind's account of the Black Hole War is mind-bending and exhilarating reading.