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The World as a Hologram — mentioned by godwinson__4-8

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:58:07 GMT

I recommend when sharing arxiv links to link to the abstract. That way your reader can decide for themselves whether they want to bother with either a PDF or HTML version, especially since the HTML views are still experimental and have occasional display issues across devices. Link to the abstract of that paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409089v2 Thanks for sharing!

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The World as a Hologram — mentioned by westurner

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:26:24 GMT

"The World as a Hologram" (1994) https://arxiv.org/html/hep-th/9409089v2 .. citations: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1288333106183032878... But can there be holograms within the outer hologram?

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The World as a Hologram — HN submission

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:47:43 GMT

The World as a Hologram

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The World as a Hologram — mentioned by qnleigh

Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:43:01 GMT

Susskind's original paper is shockingly readable, at least the first section. It doesn't use a lot of fancy math or derivations to justify holography. Mostly it uses basic concepts from undergraduate physics to show how the idea of holography is consistent and makes sense, despite it seeming incredibly counterintuitive at first glance. For instance, figure 3 shows how you can't hide a black hole behind another black hole, which has implications for how a 3D universe can be completely encoded in a 2D region. https://arxiv.org/html/hep-th/9409089v2

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The World as a Hologram — mentioned by rsj_hn

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 09:43:40 GMT

Lovely. Interestingly, this feature of black holes that they allow you to see what is on the "far side" of the black hole as a result of gravitational lensing was one of the heuristics used by Leonard Susskind to propose the holographic principle in his famous paper, "The World As A Hologram" https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409089 Note especially Figure 2, Figure 3, Figure 4, used to justify that a two dimensional screen is enough to capture all the information. Obviously there is a lot more going on -- especially the black hole entropy formula which says that entropy growths with surface area…

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The World as a Hologram — mentioned by stillbourne

Thu, 28 Jun 2018 15:24:17 GMT

https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/9409089.pdf (DOI:10.1063/1.531249) cited 3221 times: Let us begin with a maximally dense object, a black hole. It will be assumed that the entropy is found on the horizon and that no more than one bit per Planck area can stored there. The only thing I stated incorrectly was planck cubed instead of square. https://journals.aps.org/rmp/abstract/10.1103/RevModPhys.74.... The metaphorical name of the principle (’t Hooft, 1993) originates here. In many situations, the covariant entropy bound dictates that all physics in a region of space is described by data that fit…

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