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1994

The World as a Hologram

Leonard Susskind

Argues that the entropy bound on black holes implies all the information inside any region of space can be encoded on its boundary, so the interior is in some sense redundant.

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Too hard? Start hereBlack Holes and the Fundamental Laws of PhysicsJerome Gauntlett (The Royal Institution), 2017Argues that black holes are where general relativity and quantum mechanics contradict each other, and that their entropy is the most concrete clue to whatever theory reconciles the two.

Filed under Relativity & Gravitation in Physics.