The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking ... - To Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

#NAME? Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Winner of the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology. The father of string theory recounts the inside story behind his paradigm-shifting debate with Stephen Hawking over the nature of black holes. A debate that put our entire understanding of the universe at stake and resulted in Susskind's scientific triumph against one of the most brilliant scientists of our time. Now in paperback. The father of string theory recounts his paradigm-shifting debate with Stephen Hawking over the nature of black holes. Zusammenfassung The father of string theory recounts his paradigm-shifting debate with Stephen Hawking over the nature of black holes.

Product details

• Authors: Leonard Susskind
• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 24.07.2009
• EAN: 9780316016414
• ISBN: 978-0-316-01641-4
• No. of pages: 470
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 208 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Little, Brown and Company
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Astronomie, Quantenmechanik, Hawking, Stephen W., Populärwissenschaft, Astronomie, Raum und Zeit, SCIENCE / History, Mechanik / Quantenmechanik, Englische Bücher / Naturwissenschaften / Physik, Astronomie