Lenny Susskind: Black Hole War My BATTLE w Stephen Hawking Made the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (#094)

The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the
World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a 2008 popular science book by
American theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind. The book covers
the black hole information paradox, and the related scientific
dispute between Stephen Hawking and Susskind. Susskind is known for
his work on string theory and wrote a previous popular science
book, The Cosmic Landscape, in 2005. 00:00 Introduction 05:00 What
has been lost due to COVID: congeniality and v 07:00 Imposter
syndrome 10:00 HOW DID IT FEEL TO DISCOVER STRING THEORY? 15:00
SUSPICIOUS OF BIG BANG SINGULARITY 20:00 LENNY ON GOD! 25:00 Can
you test Bell Inequalities near a Black Hole’s stretched horizon?
30:00 ENTROPY 2ND LAW…why it’s sacred to Lenny 35:00 What would be
his advice to young Lenny? 40:00 What does he think about all the
competing TOEs? 45:00 Three things would push him to believe the
Multiverse 50:00 Does the String Landscape of vacua imply different
physical laws in each ‘pocket universe?’ 55:00 What would he put in
his ethical will? 60:00 What would he put on a billion year time
capsule? 70:00 Who would Lenny have for coffee? 75:00 His favorite
quote Hawking proposed that information is lost in black holes, and
not preserved in Hawking radiation.[2] Susskind disagreed, arguing
that Hawking’s conclusions violated one of the most basic
scientific laws of the universe, the conservation of information.
As Susskind depicts in his book, The Black Hole War was a “genuine
scientific controversy” between scientists favoring an emphasis on
the principles of relativity against those in favor of quantum
mechanics. The debate led to the holographic principle, proposed by
Gerard ‘t Hooft and refined by Susskind, which suggested that the
information is in fact preserved, stored on the boundary of a
system. Leonard Susskind (born 16 June 1940) is an American
physicist, who is a 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
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