About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2008-07-07
ISBN-13:9780316016407ISBN:0316016403
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780316016414ISBN:0316016411
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Date Published: 2008-07-07
ISBN-13:9780316016407ISBN:0316016403
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Binding: Spoken Word MP3-CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Date Published: 2008-07-30
ISBN-13:9781433243691ISBN:1433243695
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Binding: Spoken Word Cassette
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Date Published: 2008-08-01
ISBN-13:9781433243677ISBN:1433243679
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Binding: Spoken Word Compact Disc
Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Date Published: 2008-08-01
ISBN-13:9781433243684ISBN:1433243687
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781433243684ISBN:1433243687
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Binding: CD-ROM
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781433243691ISBN:1433243695
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316016407ISBN:0316016403
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"Could the King of physics be wrong about black holes? For 30 years Hawking and Susskind debated whether or not information disappears once it is sucked into a black hole. I commend Susskind for his courage not in debating Hawking, but in explaining concepts like Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Gravity, and Sting Theory to regular people like me. If you want to learn more about your universe and you don't want to spend a lot of time on the math - this is the book. These black hole ideas are important because if Hawking is right and information really does disappear once the black hole evaporates then we too disappear - erased forever! One day we will all be at the horizon of a black hole and eventually at the singularity - and sucked in! Once that black hole takes in more "information" (stuff) than it can hold, it begins to evaporate - as it sucks in more & more stuff - cuz the gravity won't quit. It becomes so dense that it begins to expand (evaporate) & information is lost - according to Hawking. Susskind proves his own argument (theoretically) using Gerardus 'et Hoofts "holographic principle" and Hawking is forced to make a statement that gives Susskind victory (once Suskind proves the math). This book is a twisty, unexpected, real-life story about real people who set physics on a new path. You'll learn physics terms and a lot about influential people who changed the way we see the world today."
"And another book I would like to rate 3.5. Actually is was a 4.0 until the last quarter of the book, so I am biasing up my rating here. It's a 4.5 on explaining complex but interesting technical concepts for most of the book, but falls to 2.5 or 3.0 near the end. Or perhaps I am not bright enough for the book.
Also, good lord is Susskind arrogant -- bright, but arrogant!"
"About 60% (and that's a conservative estimate) went over my head, despite Susskind's valiant effort to dumb it down. In a nutshell, he explains how he and a group of like-minded theoretical physicists ultimately proved Stephen Hawking wrong.
What was the issue? Hawking said he had proven that information that enters a black hole is lost forever. Susskind disagreed, mainly because that would mean that one of the fundamental tenets of physics -- that matter is never destroyed -- would be wrong. And if that was true, then everything known about physics would have to be wrong, too.
The book was fascinating (and elicited some funny looks from my friends when I showed them what I was reading) and I had to re-read a lot of it just to be able to follow along on the fringes of understanding. But the gist of it was that no, information is not lost forever in a black hole. It eventually escapes the black hole through quantum evaporations at the black hole's event horizon.
Oh, and the entire universe is a hologram.
I wish I could say I feel smarter now, but I don't. I do, however, realize why I didn't major in physics in college."
"Very interesting and mostly accessible discussion on complex physics (or at least complex to a layman) - General Theory of Relativity, microparticles, light, etc. The theories get a little weird near the end and without formualas to help prove his point, some of the principles seem far fetched. Nonetheless, I now feel as if I *somewhat* get space/time and basic black hole physics."
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