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An Introduction To Black Holes Information And The String Theory

By Leonard Susskind , James Lindesay

Book information

Publisher
World Scientific Publishing Company
Year
2004
ISBN
9789812561312, 9812561315
Open Library ID
OL17149424M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2190075 bytes)
Pages
199\199
Library
Techlib
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13

Description

Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Jacob Bekenstein s realization that black holes have entropy. Stephen Hawking raised profound issues concerning the loss of information in black hole evaporation and the consistency of quantum mechanics in a world with gravity. For two decades these questions puzzled theoretical physicists and eventually led to a revolution in the way we think about space, time, matter and information. This revolution has culminated in a remarkable principle called The Holographic Principle , which is now a major focus of attention in gravitational research, quantum field theory and elementary particle physics. Leonard Susskind, one of the co-inventors of the Holographic Principle as well as one of the founders of String theory, develops and explains these concepts.

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