The Black Hole War

My Battle to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

By: Leonard Susskind

Narrated by: Ray Porter

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did - and in doing so, put at risk everything we know about the fundamental laws of the universe. Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft realized the threat and responded with a counterattack that changed the course of physics.

The Black Hole War is the thrilling story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking's theories of black holes with their own sense of reality, an effort that would eventually result in Hawking admitting he was wrong and Susskind and 't Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space.

A brilliant book about the deepest mysteries of modern physics, The Black Hole War is mind-bending and exhilarating listening.

©2008 Leonard Susskind (P)2008 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

breathtaking

The book was very well written and was breathtaking; and also yhe narrator deserves special mention and commendation.

Overall good well written

overall love the book good presentation of hard subjects human for the layperson to understand.

The Black Hole War is educational and entertaining

GREAT audiobook. I learned a lot about about information theory, entropy, and astronomy. The narrator presents the story well, even the very technical bits. Highly recommended!

Turn Pager with forward thinking with incredible relevance!

Leonard's life's passion, friendships and solid values allows the reader to take one of the greatest rides and fly close to the sun with so many of the great physicist of our time. I have read close to 100 books on this and or related topics and Leonard's sensibilities and abilities to articulate very complex concepts in an entertaining and informative!

Not the best book for an “audiobook”

I like Leonard Susskind, but I never realized how important those diagrams are until I read the physical copy of this book. That being said: I love how he does not “dumb down” the material present in the book. however, there is a lot of him “hamming it up” and the book could have been compressed to about 8hrs