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  • The Black Hole War

    My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

    by Leonard Susskind

    What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did-and in doing so put at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize the import of Hawking's claims, but Leonard Susskind and Gerard t'Hooft realized the threat, and responded with a counterattack... (more)