wow, the board was good for a few days after the first debate and then the physics nobel. but now all the top threads are pol shit again.

can we try to get an actual science thread going?

i’ll start. modern string theory and AdS/CFT (pic related) rests on the holographic principle as an assumption. But decades ago John Wheeler proposed “bags of gold” that are a clear counterexample. how do you explain Wheeler’s Bags of Gold?