The Black Hole War My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by Susskind, LeonardEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-07-22
Publisher(s): Back Bay Books
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Summary
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize For Science And Technology
Author Biography
Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. The author of The Cosmic Landscape, he is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of numerous prizes including the science writing prize of the American Institute of Physics for his Scientific American article on black holes. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| The Gathering Storm | |
| The First Shot | p. 17 |
| The Dark Star | p. 25 |
| Not Your Grandfather's Geometry | p. 50 |
| "Einstein, Don't Tell God What to Do" | p. 76 |
| Planck Invents a Better Yardstick | p. 111 |
| In a Broadway Bar | p. 117 |
| Energy and Entropy | p. 126 |
| Wheeler's Boys, or How Much Information Can You Stuff in a Black Hole? | p. 143 |
| Black Light | p. 157 |
| Surprise Attack | |
| How Stephen Lost His Bits and Didn't Know Where to Find Them | p. 179 |
| The Dutch Resistance | p. 193 |
| Who Cares? | p. 200 |
| Stalemate | p. 211 |
| Skirmish at Aspen | p. 225 |
| Counterattack | |
| The Battle of Santa Barbara | p. 233 |
| Wait! Reverse the Rewiring | p. 265 |
| Ahab in Cambridge | p. 271 |
| The World as a Hologram | p. 290 |
| Closing the Ring | |
| Weapon of Mass Deduction | p. 309 |
| Alice's Airplane, or The Last Visible Propeller | p. 354 |
| Counting Black Holes | p. 366 |
| South America Wins the War | p. 395 |
| Nuclear Physics? You're Kidding! | p. 422 |
| Humility | p. 433 |
| Epilogue | p. 442 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 449 |
| Glossary | p. 451 |
| Index | p. 457 |
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