How to Use holography in a Sentence

holography

noun
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  • Hertog says, holography let Hawking and him remodel the math of the Big Bang.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 May 2018
  • This idea works very well with holography, and the fact that the entropy of the black hole is proportional to the area of the horizon rather than the volume of what's inside.
    — Sean Carroll, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2011
  • There’s a lot of commentary about whether holography, the string landscape — all sorts of things — are tethered enough to experiment.
    — Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The dimension-hopping technique that’s key to the new development is known as holography.
    — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The soundstage created by Super X-Fi headphone holography is positively eerie and the sound appears to float around you.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • In digital holography, this hologram, which is a 2D picture, is recorded in the digital camera.
    — Partha Banerjee, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2024
  • When a commuter train passes, let the magic of holography superimpose an image of a steam engine and passengers looking for a better life.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a concept in physics called holography, which finds that our three-dimensional universe can be represented in two dimensions.
    — Brian Resnick, Vox, 3 May 2018
  • Users can sample Super X-Fi headphone holography on local music content inside their phones.
    — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The concept of equating one theory to another in a space with one fewer dimension is known to theoretical physicists as holography.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • Researchers think this kind of acoustic holography could be used to improve medical imaging but also to better focus ultrasound treatments.
    — Andrew Feeney, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
  • Researchers think this kind of acoustic holography could be used to improve medical imaging but also to better focus ultrasound treatments.
    — Andrew Feeney, Smithsonian, 12 May 2017
  • But, Hertog argues, the principle of holography allows theorists to jettison the dimension of time, instead.
    — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • This is an example of what physicists call holography: a lower-dimensional space giving rise to a higher-dimensional space, like a flat hologram producing a 3D image.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2021
  • In the final years of his life, to better understand the wave function more generally, Hawking and his collaborators started applying holography — a blockbuster new approach that treats space-time as a hologram.
    — Natalie Wolchover, WIRED, 16 June 2019
  • Future measurements of these rings won’t directly test holography, though — rather, the data will allow extreme tests of general relativity near black holes.
    — Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Curved space-times emerge quite naturally from entanglement in tensor networks via holography.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, 28 Apr. 2015
  • Jafferis, Gao and Wall’s 2016 discovery of this holographic, traversable wormhole gave researchers a new window into the mechanics of holography.
    — Natalie Wolchover, Quanta Magazine, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Brain-wave scanners extract new tunes from the incapacitated songwriter, production software makes those tracks more radio-friendly, and holography generates a larger-than-life replica of Ashley that can tour the world.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 6 June 2019
  • In its early years, holography was generally accomplished by splitting a laser beam in two, then shining one beam at an object before recombining the beams, creating an interference pattern that was imprinted on a light-sensitive film.
    — Mark Aramo, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Sure enough, FogScreen’s chief technology officer, Arttu Laitinen, says his company has been closely following developments in the field of holography with an eye to creating interference patterns on fog.
    — David H Freedman, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2011
  • That’s because conventional holography involves recording a three-dimensional image on a two-dimensional medium.
    — Mark Aramo, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2022

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