The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed it did, and in doing so put at risk everything we know ab…

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