Access
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Books and Arts
Nature 454, 579-580 (31 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454579a; Published online 30 July 2008
Open Innovation Challenges
- More Challenges
- Powered by:
nature jobs
Faculty Position - Center for Viral Oncology
- University of Kansas Medical Center
- Kansas City, KS
Post Doctoral Research Assistant
- University of Bedfordshire
- Bedford, UK
Betting on black holes
Paul Davies1
BOOK REVIEWED-The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
by Leonard Susskind
Little Brown: 2008. 416 pp. $27.99
The idea of a black hole in space produced by the collapse of a massive star dates back to the 1930s, but it was only in the 1960s that astrophysicists began to understand the details. Evidence now suggests that black holes do exist, and are a key element of the great cosmic story.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
