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✨ The Universe Written on the Night Sky: What Celestial Holography Tells Us About Reality's Hidden Architecture
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Please 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 Initiative
Celestial Amplitudes Program Review talk
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