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You can skip the the 45 min mark since that's where he talks about it but I saw this come across me feed and from the sound of it he's saying that the distortion at the edges of a black hole imply the ...

The colored circle represents the hologram, out of which the knotted optical vortex emerges. Credit: University of Bristol A quarter century ago, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the AdS/CFT ...

For decades, black holes have stood as the most enigmatic objects in the universe, defying our understanding of space, time, and matter. Yet, some physicists propose an even more mind-bending idea: ...

It may sound like the outlandish plot of a poorly conceived science-fiction flick. But some scientists now claim that humanity, the Earth, and everything else in the universe are really part of a ...

As theoretical physics delves deeper into the fundamental nature of reality, we’re left to grapple with the questions it leaves us. For example, some physicists claim that our universe is merely an ...

The Fermi National Accelerator Lab near Chicago has a new toy: the Holometer. As its rather fancy name suggests, the Holometer is for testing whether our universe is actually a 2D hologram that's ...

Is our universe actually just a hologram? This isn't some trippy 3am idea, but an actual physical property of the universe everything exists in. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

While Silicon Valley execs were debating the likelihood of life being a simulation, a team of international physicists were investigating an even stranger idea – that the early universe was a vast and ...

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