What is the Holographic Principle?
When Stephen Hawking elegantly described the relationship of quantum mechanics with black holes, he inadvertently opened the door to a radical possibility: that our universe, as we know it,...
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Back in the early 1970s, Stephen Hawking wrote down an astonishing equation. It would include relativity. It would include quantum mechanics and it would include information. Hawking’s rather simple equation brought us a step closer to understanding the relationship between quantum physics and black holes. When an object crosses over the edge of a black hole, its event horizon, the object enters basically a realm of empty space and darkness and it continues to be dragged towards the center of the black hole toward what we call the singularity where it gets crushed out of existence. Every object, in some sense, contains information because it contains a very specific arrangement of particles. So where is the information that describes the arrangement of thos...
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Back in the early 1970s, Stephen Hawking wrote down an astonishing equation. It would include relativity. It would include quantum mechanics and it would include information. Hawking’s rather simple equation brought us a step closer to understanding the relationship between quantum physics and black holes. When an object crosses over the edge of a black hole, its event horizon, the object enters basically a realm of empty space and darkness and it continues to be dragged towards the center of the black hole toward what we call the singularity where it gets crushed out of existence. Every object, in some sense, contains information because it contains a very specific arrangement of particles. So where is the information that describes the arrangement of thos...
