2000/03/31 by Gerard 't Hooft · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
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arxiv created 2000/05/16 · arxiv updated 2017/08/23
After a pedagogical overview of the present status of High-Energy Physics, some problems concerning physics at the Planck scale are formulated, and an introduction is given to a notion that became known as ``the holographic principle" in Planck scale physics, which is arrived at by studying quantum mechanical features of black holes.