The Holographic Universe Explained
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters point to it as an accessible way to get a grip on AdS/CFT and the holographic principle whenever black holes or information physics come up.
What it is
A PBS Space Time episode explaining the holographic principle: the idea that our 3+1 dimensional universe may be described by information on a lower-dimensional boundary. It walks through black hole entropy and the AdS/CFT correspondence.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2019 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec bentona · 2019-11 · on “Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes”
Here's a video that made me feel like I almost half-way understood one of the main underlying principles (AdS/CFT correspondence) [this video] re: "Following the discovery of this duality by Juan Maldacena" Semi-unrelated: If you like articles like this, I bet you'll love that whole channel.
Strong rec Khaine · 2020-01 · on “Gravity: We might have been getting it wrong”
PBS Space Time have done a number of episodes on the holographic principle[1] I strongly recommend anyone interested in physics check out the channel [1] [this video]
Recommends bentona · 2019-11 · on “Information Is Physics”
There's a lot here but this specifically talks about AdS/CFT which seems to be a pretty core concept [this video] Just linked this on a similar information theory thread [1] (glad it's so popular on HN right now!) 1: [LINK]
Cites irjustin · 2020-07 · on “Pseudo-Random vs. True Random (2012)”
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. It's not an unreasonable question/thought. The heisenberg uncertainty principle says we cannot know both position and momentum perfectly at the same time where I believe your comment is originating from? In theory, if we perfectly know the quantum information then a system's state is perfectly reproducible (probably not us... ultra aliens?) since no quantum information is ever lost (probably...). To my best understanding, this is the idea of the holographic principle[0]. [0] [this video]
Cites neom · 2021-05 · on “Physicists identify the engine powering black hole energy beams”
I think that's the million dollar question. :) This episode touches on that a bit (but not really), and we're getting into holographic universe theory - [this video]
Cites westurner · 2022-03 · on “Black Holes Shown to Act Like Quantum Particles”
@PBSSpaceTime videos: "Where Is The Center of The Universe?" (2022) [LINK] "Could The Universe Be Inside A Black Hole?" (2022) [LINK] "The Holographic Universe Explained" (2019) [this video] "Are Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?" (2022) [LINK]