The Black Hole War

The Black Hole War My Battle With Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

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Publisher's Synopsis

At the beginning of the 21st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory - the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy. The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important. But mysteries remain. One of the biggest involved black holes. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that anything sucked in a black hole was lost forever. For three decades, Leonard Susskind and Hawking clashed over the answer to this problem. Finally, in 2004, Hawking conceded.
THE BLACK HOLE WAR will explain the mind-blowing science that finally won out and the emergence of a new paradigm that argues that the world - your home, your breakfast, you - is actually a hologram projected from the edges of space.

About the Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Little, Brown is the literary hardback imprint that feeds into our Abacus paperback list. We publish across a wide range of areas, including fiction, history, memoir, science and travel, but within this diverse list the vast majority of books have in common a strong narrative and a distinctive voice.

Book information

ISBN: 9780316016414
Publisher: Little, Brown
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Pub date:
DEWEY: 523.8875
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 470
Weight: 482g
Height: 139mm
Width: 209mm
Spine width: 35mm