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222 | Andrew Strominger on Quantum Gravity and the Real World
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Holographic Principle in String Theory
We found a very complicated construction within string theory of special kinds of stringy black holes that do have a venturizance. And they are subject to the Beckenstein-Halkig analysis which says that their gigabyte capacity should be proportional to their area. Vafa and I actually constructed the hologram in complete detail. It was completely correct and we hit the answer on the nose, but it was very complicated. But it was an existence proof that you of the holographic principle. This has been a great source of kind of inspiration of how quantum systems might be related to one another.
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