  To gain insight in the quantum nature of cosmological singularities, we study
anisotropic Kasner solutions in gauge/gravity duality. The dual description of
the bulk evolution towards the singularity involves N = 4 super Yang-Mills on
the expanding branch of deformed de Sitter space and is well defined. We
compute two-point correlators of Yang-Mills operators of large dimensions using
spacelike geodesics anchored on the boundary. The correlators show a strong
signature of the singularity around horizon scales and decay at large boundary
separation at different rates in different directions. More generally, the
boundary evolution exhibits a process of particle creation similar to that in
inflation. This leads us to conjecture that information on the quantum nature
of cosmological singularities is encoded in long-wavelength features of the
boundary wave function.
