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 statesma ... read full excerpt from The Black Hole War ebook