Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution, An: The Holographic Universe

Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution, An: The Holographic Universe

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For two decades, this puzzled theoretical physicists and thus eventually led to a revolution in the way we think about space, time, matter and information. This revolution has culminated in a remarkable principle called "The Holographic Principle", which is now a major focus of attention in gravitational research and other related fields.

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Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution, An: The Holographic Universe by Leonard Susskind

Over the last decade the physics of black holes has been revolutionized by developments that grew out of Jacob Bekenstein's realization that black holes have entropy. Stephen Hawking raised profound issues concerning the loss of information in black hole evaporation and the consistency of quantum mechanics in a world with gravity. For two decades these questions puzzled theoretical physicists and eventually led to a revolution in the way we think about space, time, matter and information. This revolution has culminated in a remarkable principle called “The Holographic Principle”, which is now a major focus of attention in gravitational research, quantum field theory and elementary particle physics. Leonard Susskind, one of the co-inventors of the Holographic Principle as well as one of the founders of String theory, develops and explains these concepts.
Leonard Susskind is an American physicist, who is professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology.He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an associate member of the faculty of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and a distinguished professor of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study.

Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory. He was the first to give a precise string-theoretic interpretation of the holographic principle in 1995 and the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003.

Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Sakurai Prize, and the 2018 Oskar Klein Medal.

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ISBN 13 9789812561312
ISBN 10 9812561315
Titel Introduction To Black Holes, Information And The String Theory Revolution, An: The Holographic Universe
Autor Leonard Susskind
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Verlag World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2004-12-23
Seitenanzahl 200
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