Author(s): Leonard Susskind
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 481
Tags: Физика;История физики;
Title ......Page 2
Copyright ......Page 3
Epigraph ......Page 4
Contents ......Page 6
Introduction ......Page 10
Part I. The Gathering Storm ......Page 22
1 The First Shot ......Page 24
2 The Dark Star ......Page 32
3 Not Your Grandfather's Geometry ......Page 57
4 "Einstein, Don't Tell God What to Do" ......Page 83
5 Planck Invents a Better Yardstick ......Page 118
6 In a Broadway Bar ......Page 124
7 Energy and Entropy ......Page 133
8 Wheeler's Boys, or How Much Information Can You Stuff in a Black Hole? ......Page 150
9 Black Light ......Page 164
Part II. Surprise Attack ......Page 184
10 How Stephen Lost His Bits and Didn't Know Where to Find Them ......Page 186
11 The Dutch Resistance ......Page 200
12 Who Cares? ......Page 207
13 Stalemate ......Page 218
14 Skirmish at Aspen ......Page 232
Part III. Counterattack ......Page 238
15 The Battle of Santa Barbara ......Page 240
16 Wait! Reverse the Rewiring ......Page 272
17 Ahah in Cambridge ......Page 278
18 The World as a Hologram ......Page 297
Part IV. Closing the Ring ......Page 314
19 Weapon of Mass Deduction ......Page 316
20 Alice's Airplane, or The Last Visible Propeller ......Page 361
21 Counting Black Holes ......Page 373
22 South America Wins the War ......Page 402
23 Nuclear Physics? You're Kidding! ......Page 429
24 Humility ......Page 440
Epilogue ......Page 449
Acknowledgments ......Page 456
Glossary ......Page 458
Index ......Page 464
About the Author ......Page 478
