303 | AMA | February 2025

8845.894 - 8865.65 Sean Carroll

But much better informed people than me believe in the holographic principle where something like that happens. Can you help me understand where my intuition has gone wrong here? No, I think that your intuition is completely fine. It's absolutely the case. Everyone knows that there are fewer Planck areas on the surface of a sphere than there are Planck volumes in the volume of a sphere.