Bomb#20
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In string theory -- the leading candidate for a theory of quantum gravity -- according to Stanford theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind's and Nobel Prize winner Gerard 't Hooft's so-called Holographic Principle, which they derived from Steven Hawking's discovery that the entropy or information content of a black hole scales not with the volume of the black hole but with the surface area of its event horizon, "the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary to the region". In layman terms, "volume itself is illusory and the universe is really a hologram which is isomorphic to the information 'inscribed' on the surface of its boundary." Therefore everything is flat.Okay, um, Defend the Flat Earth.

