Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics:; The Schwarzschild Black Hole; Scalar Wave Equation in a Schwarzschild Background; Quantum Fields in Rindler Space; Entropy of the Free Quantum Field in Rindler Space; Thermodynamics of Black Holes; Charged Black Holes; The Stretched Horizon; The Laws of Nature; The Puzzle of Information Conservation in Black Hole Environments; Horizons and the UV/IR Connection; Entropy Bounds and Holography:; Entropy Bounds; The Holographic Principle and Anti de Sitter Space; Black Holes in a Box; Black Holes and Strings:; Strings; Entropy of Strings and Black Holes
Leonard Susskind is Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University. He is the Recipient of the J J Sakurai Prize, the Pregel Prize, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Korean Institute for Advanced Study and Extraordinary Professor of Physics at the University of Stellenbosch. James Lindesay is Professor of Physics at Howard University.
The authors, both established researchers, present a review of
black hole physics in one of the simplest and most efficient ways
]] The book will be useful for students of physics and for everyone
interested in understanding ways in which knowledge is generated
theoretically. -- Mathematical Reviews "Mathematical Reviews"
.,." This well-planned, stimulating and sometimes provocative book
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