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> According to the holographic principle, all the information in the entire universe can be described on a giant imaginary sphere around it. Verlinde now shows
by mcbits 10y ago
> According to the holographic principle, all the information in the entire universe can be described on a giant imaginary sphere around it. Verlinde now shows that this idea is not quite correct: part of the information in our universe is contained in space itself.
I thought the holographic principle just said the amount of information in any physical structure (up to the whole universe) was such that it could fit on a 2D surface the size of the event horizon of the structure, not that it actually is contained on the surface. Does this theory change that?