The Black Hole War by Leonard Susskind

THEY couldn't be more different - one is the son of Oxford graduates, a proper Brit destined for science, the other a former plumber from a working-class Jewish family in the Bronx. They do have a few things in common, though. Both are rebellious, subversive and will fight hard for their beliefs. Oh, and they are two of the greatest physicists of our time. For more than two decades, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Susskind fought an intellectual battle over the fate of information that falls into a black hole. The stakes couldn't have been higher: were Hawking to win, the laws of physics would crumble; if it were Susskind, we would have to rethink everything we believed about the universe. Susskind's The Black Hole War is an insider's view of this clash of intellects, which he likens throughout the book to the struggle between... [read full story]