# The World as a Hologram **Domain:** Physics / Quantum Gravity **Doc Type:** Paper Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Leonard Susskind]], [[Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Gravity]], [[Information Theory]] --- ## Definition “The World as a Hologram” is Leonard Susskind's 1995 paper developing the claim that the degrees of freedom in a spatial region can be bounded by its surface area. ## Corpus Context The work is a founding text for the [[Holographic Principle]] and a primary source for [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]. ## Key Insight **This node connects its historical or conceptual subject to the corpus without treating analogy as proof of direct influence.** ## See Also [[Leonard Susskind]], [[Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Gravity]], [[Information Theory]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] - https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9409089