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The Black Hole War

My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

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The Black Hole War

Written by: Leonard Susskind
Narrated by: Ray Porter
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 What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did - and in doing so, put at risk everything we know about the fundamental laws of the universe. 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 theories of black holes with their own sense of reality, an effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong and Susskind and 't Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space.

A brilliant book about the deepest mysteries of modern physics, The Black Hole War is mind-bending and exhilarating listening.

©2008 Leonard Susskind (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Astronomy & Space Science Physics Professionals & Academics Science Science & Technology Cosmology Mathematics Black Hole Astronomy Nonfiction War
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