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Old 10-02-2010, 08:41 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Fat Abe View Post
A book using very little complex math and a lot of analogies is David Susskind's The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. It deals with the paradox of information loss after an "object" has crossed the event horizon (boundary) of a black hole. Hawking once argued that such information would be lost to the universe in which the object pre-existed. Then he came up with an alternate theory. Additional coverage can be found here:
Read this one as well and it was very good.
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