Lee Kuhnle

I can't even do math.

No, really, I can't do it.

So, I am a real novice here in terms of what the actual physics states.

I went out to Wikipedia to get some help

And here's what apparently, okay, the holographic principle is.

This is the first line in Wikipedia, which I will quote to you.

The holographic principle is a property of string theories and a supposed property of quantum gravity that states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a lower dimensional boundary to the... Okay, what even is that?

Well,

Yes.

But we're living in an aubergine.

Exactly.

And that was the sort of the kind of work that I did once.

Okay, look, again, I'm glad you're here to help me with the physics.

And I think your description is certainly much better than what I would have been able to come up with.

But that point about the fact that the way the physicists are using this idea is basically like a fix in certain kind of theories, a mathematical fix that they are proposing as, hey, maybe this will solve a bunch of problems with whatever string theory, black holes, blah, blah, blah, stuff I don't know.

That then, as you note, in the journals, this stuff is super evidence-based in terms of math and math demonstrations and stuff.

And then there's the other kind of more popularizations of it, but still very sober, like Scientific American, which is kind of a general science magazine for super smart scientists.

They'll be very careful with the data.

But as it moves into popular culture, it's as though, and I'm pretty sure this is actually the case,

It's as though the further down the food chain you go, they're not going back to the original source.