Black hole war : my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics
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- ISBN: 9780316016414
- ISBN: 0316016411
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Physical Description:
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viii, 470 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm - Edition: First Back Bay Books paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Back Bay Books, 2009.
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General Note: | Originally published: New York : Little, Brown, 2008. Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The gathering storm. The first shot ; The dark star ; Not your grandfather's geometry ; "Einstein, don't tell God what to do" ; Planck invents a better yardstick ; In a Broadway bar ; Energy and entropy ; Wheeler's boys, or, How much information can you stuff in a black hole? ; Black light -- Surprise attack. How Stephen lost his bits and didn't know where to find them ; The Dutch resistance ; Who cares? ; Stalemate ; Skirmish at Aspen -- Counterattack. The Battle of Santa Barbara ; Wait! Reverse the rewiring ; Ahab in Cambridge ; The world as a hologram -- Closing the ring. Weapon of mass deduction ; Alice's airplane, or, The last visible propeller ; Counting black holes ; South America wins the war ; Nuclear physics? You're kidding! ; Humility. |
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