His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. Smolin e-mailed Susskind asking for a comment. These courses are available on The Theoretical Minimum website, on iTunes, and on YouTube. He always told me he came from Latvia, but eventually he told me what city he came from, and it was Kaunas. Since 1979 he has been professor of physics at Stanford University,[2] and since 2000 has held the Felix Bloch professorship of physics. When Dr. Susskind stated that before Darwin the notion of a designer of life was undeniable, he echoes the leading voice of modern atheism, Professor Richard Dawkins, who wrote in his best-selling book about evolution, The Blind Watchmaker: I could not imagine being an atheist at any time before 1859 when Darwins Origin of Species was published.. View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.101602, View details for Web of Science ID 000396046800005, View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.045010, View details for Web of Science ID 000394664300013, View details for DOI 10.1002/prop.201600036, View details for Web of Science ID 000384837400006. It took 28 years for Leonard Susskind to formulate his theory that would prove Hawking wrong. in physics in 1962. The courses collectively teach everything required to gain a basic understanding of each area of modern physics, including much of the fundamental mathematics. He has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (The moderator does deserve credit for admitting that it was a loaded question. The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics. Witten, E., Nambu, Y., Yang, C. N., THOOFT, G., Atiyah, M. F., Susskind, L., Gaillard, M. K., Neeman, Y., Deser, S., TEITELBOIM, C., Gross, D., Adler, S., Weinberg, S., Brout, R., DeWitt, B., Englert, F., FUBINI, S., Regge, T., WIGNER, E. P., Wheeler, J. Susskind has also made contributions in the following areas of physics: The story goes that "In 1970, a young physicist named Leonard Susskind got stuck in an elevator with Murray Gell-Mann, one of physics' top theoreticians, who asked him what he was working on. The full series delivers over 100 lectures amounting to something on the order of 200 hours of content, with some of the individual lectures having received over a million YouTube views. Roberts, D. A., Stanford, D., Susskind, L. Deconfinement transition as black hole formation by the condensation of QCD strings, Tree-like structure of eternal inflation: A solvable model. (January 9, 2012) Leonard Susskind provides an introduction to quantum mechanics. The insistence on unitarity in the presence of black holes led 't Hooft (1993) and Susskind (1995b) to embrace a more radical, holographic interpretation of On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Smolin obliged, and on July 28, 2004, Susskind responded, saying that the logic Smolin followed "can lead to ridiculous conclusions". Susskind was awarded the 1998 J. J. Sakurai Prize for his "pioneering contributions to hadronic string models, lattice gauge theories, quantum chromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking." You should be logged in, in order to edit this article. 382 Via Pueblo Mall Varian Physics Lab The Smolin-Susskind debate finally ended with each of them agreeing to write a final letter which would be posted on Edge, with three conditions attached: (1) No more than one letter each; (2) Neither sees the other's letter in advance; (3) No changes after the fact. 2022 ARS Air, LLC. 4.12 avg rating 10,516 ratings published 2008 34 editions. He then published his theory in his book, The Black Hole War. The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics is a popular science book by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky. Movies. Since then he has taught Jewish Theology and various Torah topics to Jews of all ages. It is Susskind's attempt to bring his idea of the anthropic landscape of string theory to the general public. He is the author of Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism available on Amazon, Feldheim Books, and The Book Depository. Leonard Susskind (/ssknd/; born June 16, 1940)[1][3] is an American physicist, who is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. There is also a supplemental website for the book. He was the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003. He is the author of two popular books on modern physics:The Cosmic Landscape, and the bestsellerThe Black Hole War,which describes how, over the course of 25 years, Susskind ultimately convinced Stephen Hawking that Hawkings theory of Black Hole entropy was incorrect. (As a baseline for the reader: the number of atoms estimated to be in our entire universe is around 10 to the power of80). Susskind, L. (1995). Where did the astounding machinery of a living cell a pre-requisite for evolution come from? Susskind was an Assistant Professor of Physics, then an Associate Professor at Yeshiva University (19661970), after which he went for a year at the University of Tel Aviv (197172), returning to Yeshiva to become a Professor of Physics (19701979). [31] The goal of the courses is to teach the basic but rigorous theoretical foundations required to study certain areas of physics. Showing 17 distinct works. If you would like to subscribe to his column, send an email to above address with the word Subscribe in the subject line. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. Dr. Leonard Susskind is a renowned professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and is credited as being one of the fathers of string theory. He also does not believe in Intelligent Design, neither in the creation of the universe nor in the emergence of human beings. This covers the general theory of relativity. '"[14] Susskind then studied at Cornell University under Peter A. Carruthers, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1965. The Smolin-Susskind debate refers to the series of intense postings in 2004 between Lee Smolin and Susskind, concerning Smolins argument that the "Anthropic Principle cannot yield any falsifiable predictions, and therefore cannot be a part of science." During this discussion Stephen Hawking stated that the information inside a black hole is lost forever as the black hole evaporates. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch professor of Theoretical physics at Stanford University. 2023 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved. LEONARD SUSSKIND is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University, and director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. It certainly looks and before Darwin it looked like some designer must have, what else could possibly account for the complexity of a human being, the human brain and so forth. A quantum mechanical formulation of de Sitter cosmological spacetimes still eludes string theory. Professor Susskind teaches a very popular series of Stanford Continuing Studies courses in modern physics called The Theoretical Minimum. This covers special relativity and classical field theory. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. Having not had the chance to read the paper, Susskind requested a summarization of his arguments. PlatoSci Susskind's hallmark, according to colleagues, has been the application of "brilliant imagination and originality to the theoretical study of the nature of the elementary particles and forces that make up the physical world. Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics In 1997,Susskindwas awarded the J.J. Sakurai Prize for his "pioneering contributions tohadronicstring models, latticegaugetheories, quantumchromodynamics, and dynamical symmetry breaking.". The book sparked from a debate that started in 1981, when there was a meeting of physicists to try to decode some of the mysteries about how particles of particular elemental compounds function. The book was initially published on January 29, 2013 by Basic Books.. Dr. Susskind makes it clear in the above cited passages, that when we speak from the perspective of the laws of physics, mathematical probability, and our observations about nature, unguided forces lead us to a dead end. His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. Susskind said he was working on a theory that represented particles 'as some kind of elastic string, like a rubber band.' The following courses are available: (Note that some of the lecture names are a little mixed-up: Not actually Russia; my grandfather on my mother's side came from Lithuania. In 2006, Susskind criticized Smolin as a "mid-level theoretical physicist" whose "popular book-writing activities and the related promotional hustling have given him a platform high above that merited by his physics accomplishments. Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory, having, with Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string. He is also a distinguished professor at Korea Institute for Advanced Study.[15]. ISBN. Leonard Susskind (born 1940) is the Felix Bloch Professor of Theoretical Physics at Stanford University. 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