Interesting Talk by Physicist Leonard Susskind

Lydia

If you're in the area of San Francisco, California on October 1 this year, you may enjoy attending a talk by physicist Leonard Susskind titled: "Black Holes, My Battle with Steven Hawking".

The free lecture, co-sponsored by NASA Ames Research Center, The Foothill College Astronomy Program, The SETI Institute, and The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, is open to the public, and will take place in the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College, located at El Monte Road and Freeway 280, in Los Altos Hills, California.
(There is a $2.00 charge for campus parking, however.)

More information may be obtained by calling the series hot-line at 650-949-7888. There is no reserved seating, and it is first come, first served.

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Registration is available in advance for this talk at Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures and counts toward one credit in Astronomy 36.01 at Foothill College for attendees of all six Wednesday evening lectures and who write a short paper on any astronomy topic. Enrollment for the lecture series will also be possible the day of the lecture.

LL/

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The following is a synopsis of the lecture by sfevents on their blog.
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"Black holes, the collapsed remnants of the largest stars, provide a
remarkable laboratory where the frontier concepts of our understanding
of nature are tested at their extreme limits. For more than two
decades, Professor Susskind and a Dutch colleague have had a running
battle with Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University about the
implications of black hole theory for our understanding of reality --
a battle that he has described in his well-reviewed book The Black
Hole Wars.

"In this popular talk, without mathematics, Dr. Susskind tells the
story of these wars, explains the ideas that underlie the conflict,
and recounts how he got Hawking to retract some of his claims. What's
at stake is nothing less than our understanding of space, time, matter
and information!

"Leonard Susskind is Felix Bloch Professor of theoretical physics at
Stanford University and the author of two popular books and many
articles on recent developments in science and their meaning. He
teaches a popular "continuing studies" course at Stanford on modern
physics and has won the American Institute of Physics science writing
prize for an article explaining black holes. His research focuses on
particle physics, quantum theory, and the nature of gravity. He has a
rare knack for explaining the most advanced scientific ideas in
everyday terms."

Sylwester Kornowski

In my opinion, most important achievement of great physicist Leonard Susskind was assuming that for the strong interactions are responsible the loops of energy, not gluons as in the QCD. On base of the Quantum Chromodynamics expected that quark-gluon plasma will behave as a gas but experiments show that it behaves as liquid-like substance. It suggests that the Standard Model does not describe nature correctly. The calculations based on the energetic loops lead to better results than the QCD. See my theory.

Interesting Talk by Physicist Leonard Susskind

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