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010			_a 2007048355
020			_a 9780316016414
020			_a 9780316016407
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100	1		_a Susskind, Leonard. _98978
245	1	0	_a The black hole war : _b my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics / _c Leonard Susskind.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _b Little, Brown, _c 2008.
300			_aviii, 470 p. : _b ill. ; _c 25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
520			_aA mind-bending book about modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars and the deep mysteries of black holes. 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 that changed the course of physics. This is the story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking’s revolutionary theories with their own sense of reality--effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong, paying up, and Susskind and t’Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space.--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aHawking, S. W. _q (Stephen W.) _98979
650		0	_aQuantum theory. _9503
650		0	_aGeneral relativity (Physics) _94226
650		0	_aBlack holes (Astronomy) _95623
650		0	_aSpace and time. _92404
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