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Talbot wrote the Sci Fi. Leonard Susskind wrote the math.
February 5, 2009
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The Holographic Universe was mostly fleshed out by Leonard Susskind, not Talbot so much. Talbot had an idea in the 80's but then took it to all sorts of New Age fantasies. Susskind worked out the math.
Susskind Original (2004):
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Information-String-Theory-Revolution/...
Susskind Update (2008)
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Hole-War-Stephen-Mechanics/dp/0316016403/ref...