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AdS/CFT Made Holography a Precise Tool
Juan Maldacena's AdS/CFT construction, derived from string theory, turned the holographic principle from a wild speculation into a mathematically precise and convincing result—a theory in anti-de Sitter space with gravity is equivalent to a quantum field theory on its lower-dimensional boundary—and thereby into an actual tool of physics.
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Leonard SusskindEvidence Quote
“it was so mathematically precise and so convincing that it became, as I said, a principle and then a tool of physics”
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45 | Leonard Susskind on Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity, and Holography— Sean Carroll's MindscapeCreated: 6/13/2026, 12:10:07 AM
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