How is the hologram universe coming?

Calabi-Yao manifold

This principle of string theory is a long way from testability but…

Ever since 1997, when Maldacena discovered the AdS/CFT correspondence — a duality between AdS space and a “conformal field theory” describing quantum interactions on that space’s boundary — physicists have sought an analogous description of space-time regions like ours that aren’t bottled up. The only “boundary” of our universe is the infinite future. But the conceptual difficulty of projecting a hologram from quantum particles living in the infinite future has long stymied efforts to describe real space-time holographically.

In the last year, though, three physicists have made progress toward a hologram of de Sitter space. Like the AdS/CFT correspondence, theirs is also a toy model, but some of the principles of its construction may extend to more realistic space-time holograms. There is “tantalizing evidence,” said Xi Dong of the University of California, Santa Barbara, who led the research, that the new model is a piece of “a unified framework for quantum gravity in de Sitter [space].”Natalie Wolchover, “How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram” at Quanta

Still closer to sci-fi than the classroom, it would seem.

See also: Suzan Mazur Talks With Fermilab Associate Craig Hogan At Oscillations About The Current State Of The Hologram Universe

Astrophysicist Niayesh Afshordi Explains The Holograph Universe To Suzan Mazur At Oscillations

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“Substantial evidence” claimed for universe as a hologram

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