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Buzz Bloom
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I have just come across the following on the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Here is a quote that I would like to learn more about.
Can anyone explain this a bit further, or possibly post a link to a good discussion. The Wikipedia article was not particularly helpful to me, except for the following:
Here is a quote that I would like to learn more about.
The Holographic Principle, yet unproven, states that there is a maximum amount of information content held by regions adjacent to any surface. Therefore, counter-intuitively, the information content inside a room depends not on the volume of the room but on the area of the bounding walls.
I looked at the link for "Holographic Principle" and It gave a more formal definition of this concept, but not much about the reasoning behind it.Can anyone explain this a bit further, or possibly post a link to a good discussion. The Wikipedia article was not particularly helpful to me, except for the following:
The holographic principle is a principle of string theories and a supposed property of quantum gravity that states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a lower-dimensional https://www.physicsforums.com/javascript:void(0) to the region—preferably a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon.
In particular, can anyone estimate for me how likely this concept will turn out to be confirmed by observation?
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