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The black hole war : my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics
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The black hole war : my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics

by Leonard Susskind

An account of the decades-long scientific dispute regarding whether information is destroyed within black holes. The text examines the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics, detailing the development of a new paradigm in modern physics.

Accession 11378 ISBN 9780316016414 Publisher Back Bay Books
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