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Send a textPlease take a look at the corresponding Substack episode.There's something profoundly disorienting about learning that the universe might be fundamentally two-dimensional. Not in the sense that we're living in Flatland, but in the way information itself might be organized—like a cosmic hard drive where everything that happens in our three-dimensional space (plus time) is somehow encoded on a distant boundary, written across the night sky itself.This isn't science fiction. It's celestial holography, and it represents one of the most ambitious attempts in modern physics to reconcile what we see—particles colliding, black holes merging, gravity bending light—with the deeper mathematical structures that seem to govern reality.The story begins, as so many revolutionary ideas do, with something nobody expected: infinite symmetries lurking in Einstein's equations.Celestial Holography InitiativeCelestial Amplitudes Program Review talkCelestial Holography44 results for author: Pasterski, SThis is Heliox: Where Evidence Meets EmpathyIndependent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter. Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas. Support the showDisclosure: This podcast uses AI-generated synthetic voices for a material portion of the audio content, in line with Apple Podcasts guidelines. We make rigorous science accessible, accurate, and unforgettable. Produced by Michelle Bruecker and Scott Bleackley, it features reviews of emerging research and ideas from leading thinkers, curated under our creative direction with AI assistance for voice, imagery, and composition. Systemic voices and illustrative images of people are representative tools, not depictions of specific individuals. We dive deep into peer-reviewed research, pre-prints, and major scientific works—then bring them to life through the stories of the researchers themselves. Complex ideas become clear. Obscure discoveries become conversation starters. And you walk away understanding not just what scientists discovered, but why it matters and how they got there.Independent, moderated, timely, deep, gentle, clinical, global, and community conversations about things that matter. Breathe Easy, we go deep and lightly surface the big ideas.
