About This Video

When Stephen Hawking elegantly described the relationship of quantum mechanics with black holes, he inadvertently opened the door to a radical possibility: that our universe, as we know it, is like a hologram. Leading physicists Peter Galison, Brian Greene, and Cumrun Vafa explain how the resilient nature of information combined with the behavior of event horizons suggests that the three dimensions of reality we observe may in fact be a two-dimensional information structure “painted” on some sort of cosmological horizon.

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Recorded June 2011; Posted August 2011