303 | AMA | February 2025

8823.736 - 8845.213 Sean Carroll

Gravity is different as far as we can tell. Nate Wadoops says, the volume of a sphere is proportional to radius cubed. And the area of a sphere is proportional to radius squared. So it seems intuitively obvious that there are too few Planck squared units on the surface of a sphere to capture all the information contained in the much more numerous Planck cubed units of volume within the sphere.