The Holographic Universe Explained
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Published 2019-04-10
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We live in a universe with 3 dimensions of space and one of time. Up, down, left, right, forward, back, past, future. 3+1 dimensions. Or so our primitive Pleistocene-evolved brains find it useful to believe. And we cling to this intuition, even as physics shows us that this view of reality may be only a very narrow perception. One of the most startling possibilities is that our 3+1 dimensional universe may better described as resulting from a spacetime one dimension lower – like a hologram projected from a surface infinitely far away.
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Written by Matt O'Dowd
Graphics by Aaron Halevy
Directing by Andrew Kornhaber
The holographic principle emerged from many subtle clues – clues discovered over decades of theoretical exploration of the universe. Over the past several months on Space Time, we’ve seen those close clues, and we’ve built a the foundations needed to glimpse the true meaning of the holographic principle. We’ve moved from quantum field theory to black hole thermodynamics to string theory. We’ve made a background playlist if you want to start from scratch, and I especially recommend catching last week’s episode. But this is tough material, so let’s do a review.
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All Comments (21)
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It’s amazing what we can do with the same brains we used to throw stones at each other.
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Who ever did the music and animations of this episode deserves a raise
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‘Wait, what’ rewinds 3 seconds later. ‘Wait, what’ rewinds
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There is something very reassuring about not following 99.999% of this. Just knowing that someone out there understands this, and is in fact advancing this sort of math/research means there are still people out there that are passionate and talented enough to tackle the universe.
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New PBS Space video + First image of a Black Hole = Best day of the year.
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The only part of the video that i understand is when he tried to sell merch.
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One of these days Matt will troll us with something totally fictitious and we won’t even know it 😂😂😂
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You have really outdone yourself in this video. The level of complication you have simplified for us is astounding. Thankyou for bridging the gap from prohibitively complex to a more understandable format. You have enabled normal people to have a chance to grasp what we could otherwise probably never deciphered . Great work and thankyou.
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So I needed to understand this, so I watched the playlist. But that required another playlist. Of which the very first video required a different video, which recommended that I also watch a different video. I now have 2.5 hours of Space Time to watch
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I love how you end every single discussion with "spacetime"
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ive been watchin you since i was in highschool and back then i coudnt understand most of it but now im an undergrad physics student and starting my final year project in quantum mechanics. watching your vedios on any topic before reading a paper gives me a baseline and a boost of confidence. you are saving a lot of my time and keeping me engaged in reserach with all your visuals so i dont get lost in math. its my go -to channel to entertain myself after getting bored with colorless reserch papers
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respect to PBS for trying to make material like this available. Obviously you're not going to get a crystaline understanding of subjects like this in 20 meager minutes, but it's a great place to start!
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Yup. I think I'm gonna need to watch this series a couple more times to get this.
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When you feel completely on top of a lecture and go to the bathroom and somehow come back two semesters behind.
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My research into quantum computing led me here. As Heisenberg famously said, "not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think". I look forward to more enlightenment of physics, brilliantly explained and visualised in these videos.
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Who else is here after David Grusch testimony
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"Over the past few months on Space Time ... we've built the foundations needed to glimpse the true meaning of the holographic principle." Me tuning in to this video randomly: Oh shit, I just walked in to the final without ever going to class... 😰😨😰
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This video proved I'm dumb in every dimension.
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I'm doing a project on black hole entropy for my thermodynamics course, and these videos have actually carried me so hard. Thanks!!!!!
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Here after the ay lmao hearing
