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If the holographic principle is true there are a lot less degrees of freedom than would otherwise seem available
by platz 9y ago
If the holographic principle is true there are a lot less degrees of freedom than would otherwise seem available
- philipov 9y agoThe cardinality of a continuous 3d space is the same as a continuous 2d space. You just have to be clever about encoding it.
- Dylan16807 9y agoYou have to hit black-hole-level information densities for it to matter, don't you?
- platz 9y agoyes, but that entails an upper-bound... finite.
- Dylan16807 9y agoWhen it comes to a single particle, I wouldn't have thought an infinite number of degrees of freedom "seem available" in the first place.
- platz 9y agoThat is exactly what the article posits as a hypothesis.
- Dylan16807 9y agoMaybe? I would have said they're using one degree of freedom, the frequency.
- platz 9y agoAs far as our model is concerned it's a distiction without a difference because were talking about all the bits of entropy, i.e. the information. If it's a represtanble state, it counts as a bit of information.