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The Black Hole War
My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Langbeschreibung
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.
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.
ISBN-13:
9780316016414
Veröffentl:
2009
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.11.2009
Seiten:
470
Autor:
Leonard Susskind
Gewicht:
490 g
Format:
208x138x38 mm
Sprache:
Englisch