Comment by glenstein
8 hours ago
This is as good a time as any to note that we might be closing in on a new conceptual revolution in our own time as it relates to holography and an information centric approach to spacetime. Obviously It's the furthest possible thing from a guarantee, but it has much of the enthusiasm and motivation that string theory had previously enjoyed in prior decades.
So it could be a natural experiment for whether AI can contribute to novel physics. Specifically, there's a big question about weather. Something like our informational understanding of black holes where information inside it is equivalent to information on its boundary (which I'm sure I'm not saying correctly), might be generalized to regular space-time. More people should be freaking out with excitement about this and perhaps it's something to which AI can contribute.
Do you have anywhere you recommend where I can read more on this?
Honestly I don't think I have single great article, though some Quanta ones are ok, and the Wikipedia article is okay.
The best thing I can recommend is what I did, which is ask Claude about the significance of (1) quantum computing error correction, and (2) error correction in black hole holography and research convergence between the two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a...
Edit: this whole article, despite it's boring title and hook, is maybe the best discussion of holography as a recent and active research frontier.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/if-the-universe-is-a-hologram...
(not the person you replied to)
I have no idea what you're hoping the contribution would be. The AdS/CFT correspondence is 29 years old by now and it doesn't seem to apply to our spacetime, where the cosmological constant seems to be positive rather than negative. There are some puzzling consequences of the holographic principle in that scenario as well (https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0208013), but the linked articles don't talk about them?
Quanta articles are written for people with no background whatsoever, which makes them impenetrable if you have a bit of background and are trying to figure out what they're about. I don't know how good Claude is compared to that -- whenever I try asking any LLM about something I don't understand, it produces a wall of text, I have no idea whether it's correct or relevant, and I look for a textbook or review paper instead.