Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space.

The short version

• Physicists don’t yet understand the implications.
• What Does That Mean for Reality? first appeared on Quanta Magazine.
• An editorially independent publication supported by the Simons Foundation.

What happened

Create a reading list by clicking the Read Later icon next to the articles you wish to save. I n my first months as a physics journalist nearly a decade ago, I kept running into an inscrutable string of characters: AdS/CFT.

Why it matters

Thoroughly intimidated, I decided to just ignore it.

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