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PIRSA:05020004

The Black Hole Wars

APA

Susskind, L. (2005). The Black Hole Wars. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/05020004

Leonard Susskind Stanford University

Talk numberPIRSA:05020004
Source RepositoryPIRSA
Talk Type Public Lectures

Abstract

The strange paradoxes and puzzles of the quantum behaviour of black holes and the things that fall into them led to a spirited battle of ideas between Stephen Hawking, Leonard Susskind and other scientists. Resolving the debate may change our entire understanding of space, time, matter and information – is the entire world, for example, a quantum hologram? black hole, Leonard Susskind, space-time, Einstein, Hawking, complementarity, uncertainty principle, holographic principle, string theory,