Ohkyung Kwon
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Hunting the Holographic Universe

Strip the Cosmos — Series 3, Episode 10 (season finale)
Produced by Windfall Films for Discovery Science.  To air early 2019.
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Scientific American Feb 2012
Scientific American Sept 2015

Scientific American Feature Stories

​February 2012 — Volume 306, Issue 2
  • The Quantum Universe: Is Space Digital?​ — by Michael Moyer
September 2015 — Volume 313, Issue 3 (Special Issue: 100 Years of General Relativity)
  • Cleaning Up After Einstein: A new generation of physicists hope to succeed where Einstein failed ​— by Corey S. Powell

Latest Talks for General Audiences

  • Upcoming public lecture: Fermilab (Wilson Hall), Sunday, July 7th, 2019 at 1pm
    This will be delivered at the level of an incoming college freshman, and maybe close to new results!
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  • "A History of Reality" — At a transdisciplinary academic retreat hosted by the Samsung Foundation:   [Slides]   [Transcript]
    ​This was delivered for a general science audience, comprised of graduate student scholars supported by the foundation.
  • Many more to come — We are on a brief hiatus since early 2017 as we analyze preliminary data!

About Our Instrument

  • A  short video tour, by Fermilab Visual Media Services:
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  • Our instrument highlighted in the news and perspectives blog of the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity:
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About Our Latest Research Program

  • University of Chicago: Experiment probes nature of space and time
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BBC Horizon

What is Reality? 

BBC Horizon — Season 47, Episode 9
Aired January 17, 2011

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Below are resources mostly about work done by collaborators before I worked on the experimental program. I will have much more to say soon!

News Articles on Holometer First-Generation Results

  • Fermilab News: Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations
  • Symmetry: Holometer rules out first theory of space-time correlations
  • Science Magazine: Controversial experiment sees no evidence that the universe is a hologram​​
  • Vice Motherboard: Experiment finds no evidence the universe is a hologram (But it still might be)
  • Discover: Reality check: The universe is (probably) not a hologram
  • Gizmodo: Fermilab experiment finds no evidence that we live in a hologram
  • IBT (UK): Universe a hologram? Not according to Fermilab Holometer experiment
  • IBT (AU): Scientists release result of world’s first experiment on a 'holographic universe'

Media Coverage of Early Studies and Design Concept

  • Fermilab News: Do we live in a 2-D hologram?
  • University of Chicago: Hologram reflection
  • Guardian / Nautilus: Relativity versus quantum mechanics / Will quantum mechanics swallow relativity?
  • Symmetry: Searching for the holographic universe
  • Symmetry: Now playing: Reality. In 3D
  • Symmetry: Hogan's holometer: Testing the hypothesis of a holographic universe
  • Wired: Fermilab is finding out if the Universe is flat
  • Wired: World's most precise clocks could reveal Universe is a hologram
  • New Scientist: Experiment tests whether universe is a hologram
  • New Scientist: Our world may be a giant hologram
  • Financial Times: Physics: is the world really 3D?
  • NBC News: Do we live in a 2-D hologram? Physicists aim to find out
  • Daily Beast: Is the Cosmos just a big hologram?
  • Newsweek: Government physicists think we may be living in a 2-D hologram
  • New Statesman: Particle accelerator experiment begins search for evidence that we live in a hologram
  • Vox: Some physicists believe we're living in a giant hologram — and it's not that far-fetched
  • Popular Science: Fermilab is building a 'Holometer' to determine once and for all whether reality is just an illusion
  • Vice Motherboard: Meet the government researcher trying to prove the universe is a 2D hologram
  • Vice Motherboard: There is growing evidence that our universe is a giant hologram
  • The Verge: A physics experiment might soon tell us if we're living in a 2D hologram
  • CSM: Is the universe a big hologram? This device could find out.
  • Huffington Post: Freaky physics experiment may prove our universe is a two-dimensional hologram
  • Phys.org: Holometer experiment to test if the universe is a hologram
  • Space.com: Is the universe a 2D hologram? Experiment aims to find out

Our work is funded by the following agencies, institutions, and organizations:
Funding Sources for All Collaborators
kwon [at] uchicago.edu                         ​Fermilab, PO Box 500   •   MS 322, 9 Sauk Circle   •   Batavia IL, 60510   •   U. S. A.
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