# Leonard Susskind **Domain:** Physics / Quantum Gravity **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[Holographic Principle]], [[Quantum Foundations]] --- ## Definition Leonard Susskind is an American theoretical physicist whose work helped formulate string theory and develop the holographic principle. ## Corpus Context His paper [[The World as a Hologram]] gave a broad physical formulation to ideas anticipated by 't Hooft. [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] uses the work to keep informational ontology inside credentialed physics rather than free-floating metaphor. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Gerard 't Hooft]], [[Holographic Principle]], [[Quantum Foundations]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]