A (Gentle) Introduction to Holographic Duality: Part 1

Here -- in Part 1 of a two-part lecture -- I give a gentle introduction to the idea in theoretical physics called holographic duality. The target audience is undergraduate students in physics, but I think it should be accessible to anyone with some exposure to basic ideas in physics (like thermodynamics and entropy).
Part 2 of this lecture is here: • A (Gentle) Introductio...
Holographic duality -- also called AdS/CFT, or gauge-gravity duality -- states that certain theories of quantum gravity are exactly equivalent to systems of particles with no gravity, but living in one lower dimension. In this talk I motivate these ideas by explaining some peculiar things that happen when you think simultaneously about quantum mechanics, black holes, and thermodynamics.

[@chris_dixon]

I have watched your (Gentle) introduction to string theory so many times, and it's the best resource I've found anywhere. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, it's really valuable.

[@Oliver-wv4bd]

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[@pointlessgomboc]

underrated lesson to be honest

[@ManishRaj-hp7kl]

Keep sharing Nabil ✨

[@Anonymous95202]

Really great content, please don't stop making videos like this

[@sorusor1505]

Can you record a video on important problems and current approaches with some references? I am an undergrad student in Turkey and honestly I don't think anyone here works on these problems that can provide guidance to me. I would really appreciate such a video, otherwise I'll just keep reading some lecture notes that I've found on arXiv without a concrete idea of what and why I do it.