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AMA | March 2024

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Exploring the Holographic Principle in Physics

The chapter delves into the holographic principle, highlighting the limits on entropy and degrees of freedom within a region of space. It explains the implications of this principle on quantum mechanics and gravity, discussing mathematical concepts like ultraviolet cutoffs and reducing degrees of freedom. The discussion also touches on how overlapping degrees of freedom challenge traditional notions of independence and orthogonality in quantum field theory.

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