The Black Hole War is the thrilling story of Leonard Susskind's effort to reconcile Stephen Hawking's revolutionary theories of black holes with his own sense of reality. This effort would eventually lead to Hawking admitting he was wrong.

Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that when something is sucked into a black hole, it disappears, putting at risk everything we know about physics and the fundamental laws of the universe. Most scientists didn't recognize the import of Hawking's claims, but Leonard Susskind and Gerard t'Hooft realized the threat. They responded with a counterattack that changed the course of physics.

The Black Hole War is the story of their united effort to reconcile Hawking's revolutionary theories of black holes with their own sense of reality. This effort resulted in Hawking admitting he was wrong, and Susskind and t'Hooft realizing that our world is a hologram projected from the outer boundaries of space.

Leonard Susskind's account of the Black Hole War is mind-bending and exhilarating reading, offering insights into modern physics, quantum mechanics, the fate of stars, and the deep mysteries of black holes.