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The Black Hole War
My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum MechanicsBy Leonard SusskindNarrated by Ray PorterLength12h 46m
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This is the inside account of the battle over the true nature of black holes—with nothing less than our understanding of the entire universe at stake.
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 reading.
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Rating★★★★ 4.2 (14.3K)
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GenreScience and Nature
Length12 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byRay Porter
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJul 7, 2008
LanguageEnglish
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