The Black Hole War: My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001CMOODE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 533 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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THE BLACK HOLE WAR will explain the mind-blowing science that finally won out, and the emergence of a new paradigm that argues the world--this catalog, your home, your breakfast, you--is actually a hologram projected from the edges of space.. Finally, in 2004, Hawking conceded. But mysteries remain. 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. For three decades, Leonard Susskind and Hawking clashed over the answer to this problem. One of the biggest involved black holes. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that anything sucked in a black hole was lost forever
And, of course, it’s never a bad idea to drop Hawking’s name in a book’s title. In The Black Hole War, Susskind plays on our insatiable appetite for the gee-whiz moment, combining lucid explanations for some complex ideas with stories that tend to confirm the eccentricities of the highly intelligent. “Susskind explains this dizzying notion about as clearly as is probably possible,” George Johnson writes of the author’s theory—even if, in the end, we need “a lot m
Great physics reading LE Very interesting! Still I had difficulty accepting the idea of the Hawking radiation. If the radiation happens at the event horizon, that surface exists relative to an observer at infinite distance. I guess that a closer observer will see an event horizon that is slightly closer to the black hole. Since the even horizon is a particle-antiparticle splitter, how could it be so relative to an observer. Would the hawking radiation depend on the observer? The closer observer would see the infinite observed event horizon as ordinary space, an because of that virtual particles would not split and radiate. . Orville B. Jenkins said The Struggle to Really Explain Black Holes. A fascinating recounting of the various Quantum theories attempting to account for the phenomena associated with Black Holes. Susskind provides a historical perspective as well as summing up the varieties of approach to the problem. I especially appreciated the good detailing of String Theory, which I was only vaguely familiar with.He provides actual mathematical formulae and their variations that illustrate the problems and approaches he is discussing to a solution to the lose ends existing in our knowledge about the state of the universe and its workings. We learn a lot here also about the inner w. book: The Black Hole War Amazon Customer An engaging recounting of a contretemps that had spanned several decades, in the highest ivory towers of theoretical physics. I don't agree with the conclusion the protagonists came to, but the recounting is insightful as well as entertaining, nonetheless. It's about deciding which road to take in one's intellectual belief structure, when an apparent paradox sits at the fork of possible roads. That meta-physical situation should inform us all, physicist or not.
Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. He lives in Palo Alto, California. 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.