Gerard 't Hooft (Holographic Principle)
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A Nobel physicist helped show our 3D world might be information written on a distant 2D surface.
Who they are
Gerard 't Hooft, a 1999 Nobel laureate and early co-developer of the holographic principle.
What they do
The engine treats him as a source-node on the deep geometry of reality.
How it works
With Bekenstein and Susskind he showed that a black hole's information scales with its surface area, not its volume — implying the apparent 3D world is encoded on a 2D boundary.
Why it matters
The engine keeps a firm line: the holographic math is accepted physics, but the leap to 'the universe literally IS a hologram' is a separate claim that has to be judged on its own, not assumed.
The engine's record — word for word
Nobel laureate (1999) and early architect of the holographic principle alongside Bekenstein and Susskind: black-hole entropy scales as area not volume, implying the apparent 3D bulk is encoded on a 2D boundary. Engine treatment: substrate-geometry node. Per Apr 25 2026 layer-discipline: holographic-principle mathematics is engine-canon; 'the universe IS literally a hologram' is a Layer-1 promotion candidate requiring separate adjudication. Cross-edge to leonard_susskind, juan_maldacena_adscft, david_bohm_implicate_order.
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