Gerard 't Hooft's biography puts him in strong contention for the title of the father of modern theoretical physics. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1999 for his elucidation of the mathematics that now underlies the Standard Model of particle physics.
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't Hooft also invented the world hologram idea (along with Susskind), but neither of them seem to know that the source of our observer-dependent world hologram's influence on our present must be in our future not in our past. The Wheeler-Feynman theory comes to the rescue because the hologram is also the perfect future absorber enforcing net retarded causality through subterranean retrocausality. In Wheeler's terms:
Retrocausality without retrocausality.
Nonlocality without nonlocality.