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

Leonard Susskind

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...

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It was mentioned as a book where the author discusses the information paradox and attempts to defend the universe against Stephen Hawking's claims about black holes.

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So I would say right now, if you talk to people like Lenny Susskind, who has a great book called Black Hole Wars where he talks about trying to make the universe safe from Stephen Hawking, they would...

— Episode: Cosmic Queries – Black Hole Survival Gui...

Episode: Cosmic Queries – Black Hole Survival Guide

It was mentioned as a book where the author discusses the information paradox and attempts to defend the universe against Stephen Hawking's claims about black holes.

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So I would say right now, if you talk to people like Lenny Susskind, who has a great book called Black Hole Wars where he talks about trying to make the universe safe from Stephen Hawking, they would say they figured out a way to encode the information in the Hawking radiation.

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