>So after entropy people kept looking at these things, thinking if we entertain entropy we can entertain information as well. So they started studying what happens if you throw stuff at a D-brane, and this led to Maldacena’s recognizing this duality between gauge fields and strings. This entropy counting is neat, but the gauge/gravity duality is amazing, because it really says that gravity and string theory are not anything new; they’ve always been present in the framework of quantum field theory or gauge theory, if we simply knew how to read the code, and Maldacena told us how to read the code.
> — Joe Polchinski
are gravity/GR and string/M theory just quantum field theory in disguise?
i think they are. AdS/CFT ftw. prove me wrong.
> — Joe Polchinski
are gravity/GR and string/M theory just quantum field theory in disguise?
i think they are. AdS/CFT ftw. prove me wrong.
