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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Holographic Principle and a Teapot

    10/03/2021 3:18:19 PM PDT · by MtnClimber · 32 replies
    APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 3 Oct, 2021 | Image Credit: Caltech
    Explanation: Sure, you can see the 2D rectangle of colors, but can you see deeper? Counting color patches in the featured image, you might estimate that the most information that this 2D digital image can hold is about 60 (horizontal) x 50(vertical) x 256 (possible colors) = 768,000 bits. However, the yet-unproven Holographic Principle states that, counter-intuitively, the information in a 2D panel can include all of the information in a 3D room that can be enclosed by the panel. The principle derives from the idea that the Planck length, the length scale where quantum mechanics begins to dominate classical...