The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking

October 1, 2008 Dr. Leonard Susskind(Stanford University) Black holes, the collapsed remnants of the largest stars, provide a remarkable laboratory where the frontier concepts of our understanding of nature are tested at their extreme limits. For more than two decades, Professor Susskind and a Dutch colleague have had a running battle with Stephen Hawking about the implications of black hole theory for our understanding of reality a battle that he has described in his wellreviewed book The Black Hole Wa