Produced by: Manoj Kumar
What if everything you know—space, time, even you—is just data on a cosmic shell? Black holes suggest the universe might be more wallpaper than window.
Physicists now think gravity might be a mirage and spacetime a side effect. Behind it all? A two-dimensional playground where quantum chaos makes our 3D world shimmer into view.
Hawking cracked open black holes—and out came a paradox. Their surface-area entropy might be whispering the universe’s biggest secret: that reality is flat.
In 1997, Juan Maldacena flipped physics on its head—turning an unsolvable gravity puzzle into a solvable boundary game. His trick? Make the third dimension vanish.
If gravity is just math and the universe has no inside—only an edge—then are we living in a well-rendered trick of quantum light and theoretical logic?
Like a 3D image encoded on a flat film, the universe might be a projected illusion. The strange thing? It’s our best bet to unify gravity and quantum physics.
A five-dimensional void and a boundary full of fields. Welcome to theoretical physics’ weirdest trade: gravity for math, depth for surface, and certainty for conjecture.
Are we living in the real world—or a mathematical shortcut? The holographic principle dares to ask whether our universe is just a really good equation.
General relativity redefined gravity. Now, the holographic principle might rewrite space itself. But is it real physics—or just another mathematical illusion?