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

This is the inside account of the battle over the true nature of black holes-with nothing less than our understanding of the entire universe at stake.

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did-and in doing so, put at risk everything we know about the fundamental laws of the universe. Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft realized the threat and responded with a counterattack that c...