Physics & Cosmology

Holographic Principle

speculative Contemporary 1993–1997

Suggests all information in a volume of space can be described by information on its boundary — implying our 3D universe may be encoded on a lower-dimensional surface.

Proponents

Gerard 't Hooft, Leonard Susskind, Juan Maldacena

Evidence For

Strongly supported mathematically within string theory via the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Evidence Against

Direct experimental confirmation for our actual universe (which is not anti-de Sitter space) is still lacking.

Real Sources

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