The Black Hole War
My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics
Chapter One
THE FIRST SHOT
San Francisco, 1983
The dark clouds of war had been gathering for more than eighty years by the time
the initial skirmish took place in the attic of Jack Rosenberg's San Francisco
mansion. Jack, also known as Werner Erhard, was a guru, a supersalesman, and a
bit of a con man. Prior to the early 1970s, he had been just plain Jack
Rosenberg, encyclopedia salesman. Then one day, while crossing the Golden Gate
Bridge, he had an epiphany. He would save the world and, while he was at it,
make a huge fortune. All he needed was a classier name and a new pitch. His new
name would be Werner (for Werner Heisenberg) Erhard (for the German statesman
Ludwig Erhard); the new pitch would be Erhard Seminars Training, aka EST. And he
did succeed, if not in saving the world, at least in making his fortune.
Thousands of shy, insecure people paid several hundred dollars each to be
harangued, harassed, and (according to legend) told that t ... read full excerpt from: The Black Hole War ebook
