Holographic Principle

Speculative · 1993

Status: Speculative
Year: 1993

Summary

Everything inside a region can be encoded on its boundary, one bit per four Planck areas. Suggested by black hole entropy, made concrete by AdS/CFT, and still without a formulation for our own universe.

Timeline

The Last Black Holes Go

Equations

Schwarzschild Radius Boltzmann Entropy Shannon Entropy

Proponent

Juan Maldacena Gerard 't Hooft Leonard Susskind

Referenced by

equation

Boltzmann Entropy Schwarzschild Radius Shannon Entropy

event

The Last Black Holes Go

researcher

Gerard 't Hooft Juan Maldacena Leonard Susskind

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