A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
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PARTICIPANTS: Gerard ’t Hooft, Leonard Susskind, Raphael Bousso, Herman Verlinde
Original Program Date: Friday June 3, 2011
John Hockenberry's Introduction. 00:15
Participant Introductions. 06:32
What is the Holographic Principal? 08:43
Are we real or are we just holograms? 11:40
Why can't information just go away? 14:53
How was the debate with Stephen Hawking? 18:53
Can we map every element in the known universe? 21:30
Where did you find the information being stored? 26:09
Finding the exact amount of information in a black hole? 33:02
Physics can describe everything in a 0 or 1 bit per Planck area. 40:10
What excites you about the Holographic principal? 46:58
Who thinks the Holographic Principle is rubbish? 57:24
Is there a more basic state that quantum mechanics? 01:05:44
What position do you all take on the Holographic Principal? 01:09:54
The universe is a giant computer. 01:18:30
The limits of knowing everything. 01:24:30
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