| 词条 | The Black Hole War |
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| name = Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics | image = The Black Hole War - bookcover.jpg | caption = Softcover edition | author = Leonard Susskind | country = United States | language = English | genre = Popular science | subject = Black hole, string theory | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | release_date = July 7, 2008 | media_type = Print, e-book, audiobook | pages = 480 pp. | isbn = 978-0316016407 | dewey = | congress = | oclc = |preceded_by = The Cosmic Landscape |followed_by = The Theoretical Minimum }} Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a 2008 popular science book by American theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind. The book covers the black hole information paradox, and the related scientific dispute between Stephen Hawking and Susskind.[1] Susskind is known for his work on string theory and wrote a previous popular science book, The Cosmic Landscape, in 2005.[2] OverviewHawking proposed that information is lost in black holes, and not preserved in Hawking radiation.[2] Susskind disagreed, arguing that Hawking's conclusions violated one of the most basic scientific laws of the universe, the conservation of information. As Susskind depicts in his book, The Black Hole War was a "genuine scientific controversy" between scientists favoring an emphasis on the principles of relativity against those in favor of quantum mechanics.[1] The debate led to the holographic principle, proposed by Gerard 't Hooft and refined by Susskind, which suggested that the information is in fact preserved, stored on the boundary of a system.[3] ReceptionSean M. Carroll in the Wall Street Journal praised the book for successfully explaining the topic, despite the difficulty of the subject, in a way that lay readers could understand. Carroll writes that the book contains a "wealth of anecdotes", and that Susskind's "wit and storytelling abilities ... are pleasantly on display in" the book.[4] George Johnson of The New York Times was critical of the beginning of the book, writing that the introduction on the basic concepts of relativity and quantum mechanics was excessive, especially for readers who have already read other popular science books on theoretical physics.[5] Time Magazine's Lev Grossman gave the book a B+, saying that "you could dismiss it all as nerd-on-nerd violence, but then you'd miss out on Susskind explaining why the universe is actually a hologram."[6] Jesse Cohen of the Los Angeles Times criticized the book for its "tendency to meander" with personal anecdotes, although the book "glows with the warmth of conversation."[7] The New Scientist included the book on its 2008 editor's picks list[8] and the Washington Post listed it as one of the best books of 2008 in their annual holiday shopping guide.[9] See also
References1. ^1 {{cite book|author=Leonard Susskind|title=The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f3_rnRVxGIsC|accessdate=5 August 2012|date=7 July 2008|publisher=Hachette Inc.|chapter=Introduction|isbn=978-0-316-01640-7}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Black Hole War, The}}2. ^1 {{cite news|last=Carrol|first=Sean|title=The Black Hole War|url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2008/07/28/the-black-hole-war/|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=Discover Magazine|date=28 July 2008}} 3. ^{{cite news|last=Timmer|first=John|title=How an argument with Hawking suggested the Universe is a hologram|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2011/07/how-an-argument-with-hawking-suggested-the-universe-is-a-hologram/|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=Ars Technica|date=31 July 2011}} 4. ^{{cite news|last=Carroll|first=Sean|title=Lost in Space|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121720140527588397 |accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=28 July 2012}} 5. ^{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=George|title=The Theory That Ate the World|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Johnson-t.html?pagewanted=1|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=New York TImes|date=22 August 2008}} 6. ^{{cite news|last=Grossman|first=Lev|title=5 Things You Need to Know About|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1821654,00.html|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=Time|date=10 July 2008}} 7. ^{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Jesse|title=Science Friction|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/13/books/bk-susskind13/2|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=13 July 2008}} 8. ^{{cite news|last=Gefner|first=Amanda|title=Editor's picks 2008|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20026862.400-editors-picks-2008.html|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=New Scientist|date=10 December 2008}} 9. ^{{cite news|title=Best Books of 2008|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/best-books-of-2008/|accessdate=6 August 2012|newspaper=Washington Post|date=7 December 2008}} 2 : 2008 non-fiction books|Physics books |
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