holographic principle
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 6, 2018 by Leonard Susskind · across every show →
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Dec 6, 2018 neutral
Susskind: Mapping 3D space onto 2D boundaries produces visual discontinuity
“It is possible to map a three dimensional world onto two dimensions, but never in a way in which the two dimensional stuff looks anything like the thing you're mapping. It will look random. It will look it will look like a simply confused jumble of little tiny…”
Dec 6, 2018 positive
Susskind: Maldacena's math validated the holographic principle for mainstream physics
“It wasn't, it didn't come in from the cold, shall we say, until the work of Juan Maldesena, who made a really rigorous, beautiful version of it, which now everybody believes. The mathematics of it was, it came from, it was a string theoretic construction where…”