In 2009, a sixteen-year-old girl flew solo in a single-engine plane she had built herself from 15,000 rivets and an engine she assembled outside her bedroom. Today, that same spirit of "audacious innocence" is directed toward the very foundations of reality. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski, a first-generation Cuban-American theorist, is now leading a global effort to answer one of the most demanding questions in science: Is our three-dimensional universe actually a hologram?

In this episode of Mavericks of Science, we trace the journey of a "maker" who mastered the physical world before turning to the deep, mathematical laws that allow it to exist.