The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

At the beginning of the 21^st century, physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory—the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy. The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important. But mysteries remain. One of the biggest involved black holes. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that anything sucked in a black hole was lost forever. For three decades, Leonard Susskind and Hawking clashed over the answer to this prob…