The Science Bookshelf http://innovationwatch.com Rethinking the future Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:46:30 +0000 en hourly 1 The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. By Leonard Susskind. Back Bay Books. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/deepchange/newbooks/~3/nAvQhdumiEM/ http://innovationwatch.com/the-black-hole-war-my-battle-with-stephen-hawking-to-make-the-world-safe-for-quantum-mechanics-by-leonard-susskind-back-bay-books/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 00:19:27 +0000 iw http://innovationwatch.com/?p=7811 When something is sucked into a black hole, is it lost forever? Three decades ago, the American physicist Leonard Susskind and the British physicist Stephen Hawking began clashing over the answer to this question. Hawking insisted that anything that fell into a black hole disappeared. But Susskind and the Dutch physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft realized that if this was true, then everything we understand about the fundamental laws of nature would have to be tossed out. The Black Hole War is the thrilling story of the epic contest that ensued — an illuminating, exhilarating exploration of modern physics, quantum improbabilities, and the fate of stars.

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