The Black Hole War
My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by Leonard Susskind
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A mind-bending book about modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars and the deep mysteries of black holes. 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. This is the story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking's revolutionary theories 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.--From publisher description.
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Der Krieg um das Schwarze Loch: Wie ich mit Stephen Hawking um die Rettung der Quantenmechanik rang
2010, Suhrkamp Verlag, Suhrkamp Verlag AG
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Trous noirs : La guerre des savants
Apr 22, 2010, Robert Laffont, ROBERT LAFFONT
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Jul 22, 2009, Back Bay Books
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Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
2008, Little Brown & Company
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The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
July 7, 2008, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown
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in English
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Wenn etwas in einem Schwarzen Loch verschwindet, geht es dann für immer verloren? Stephen Hawking, der berühmte britische Physiker, und Leonard Susskind, Physiker und Theoretiker aus den USA, gerieten über diese Frage in Streit. Hawking vertrat die These, dass alles, was je von einem Schwarzen Loch verschluckt worden sei, nicht wiederkehren könne. Wäre dem wirklich so, würde das unser ganzes Verständnis des Universums von Grund auf erschüttern, hielten Leonard Susskind und der niederländische Physiker Gerald t’Hoofd dagegen. Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte dauerte der Streit der Wissenschaftler über das Phänomen der Schwarzen Löcher. Leonard Susskinds Buch Der Krieg ums Schwarze Loch ist eine anschauliche, dramatische Expedition durch die Welt der modernen Physik und die galaktischen Weiten. Der weltweit angesehene Forscher erläutert darin, wie aus einer der spannendsten Auseinandersetzungen in der Quantenmechanik ein neues Paradigma, der genauso merkwürdig und revolutionär wie Heisenbergs Unschärferelation ist.
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