Paper: Information in the Holographic Universe: Thermodynamics and Physical Reality

In an exposition as bold as it is mathematically rigorous, physicist Jacob D. Bekenstein explores the profound ontological ramifications derived from the thermodynamics of black holes. The present article articulates the 'Holographic Principle', a paradigm of modern theoretical physics that postulates that the complete and exhaustive description of any three-dimensional volume of space (and all the matter it contains) can be mathematically encoded in the two-dimensional boundary surface that encloses said volume. This counterintuitive conclusion, deduced from the unbreakable Bekenstein-Hawking entropy equation, suggests that the fundamental magnitude that constitutes the architecture of the physical universe is neither tangible mass nor kinetic energy, but rather discrete units of Information (qubits). Consequently, the very fabric of physical and spatial 'reality' is not a primary structure, but rather an emergent manifestation projected from an immaterial and purely informational substrate.