A UK, Canadian and Italian study has provided what researchers believe is the first observational evidence that our universe could be a vast and complex hologram.
Theoretical physicists and astrophysicists, investigating irregularities in the cosmic microwave background (the 'afterglow' of the Big Bang), have found there is substantial evidence supporting a holographic explanation of the universe -- in fact, as much as there is for the traditional explanation of these irregularities using the theory of cosmic inflation.
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A holographic universe, an idea first suggested in the 1990s, is one where all the information, which makes up our 3D 'reality' (plus time) is contained in a 2D surface on its boundaries.Professor Kostas Skenderis of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Southampton explains: "Imagine that everything you see, feel and hear in three dimensions (and your perception of time) in fact emanates from a flat two-dimensional field. The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface, such as in the hologram on a credit card. However, this time, the entire universe is encoded!"
So there is a reason you feel like you're living in the Matrix.
(Score: 2) by NickFortune on Tuesday January 31 2017, @01:22PM
Yes, fair enough.
But suppose we're just living in a computer simulation of a 3D universe holographically encoded on the boundaries of a 2D surface? What then, hmmm?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 31 2017, @10:01PM
Well, then i imagine it means that the Demiurge, Pleroma, Ashur, whatever.. is... more real then we are, and there are not going to be any privilege escalation or jailbreak type of exploits... Because it/they would be capable of inifinitely many FLOPS per unit of whatever passes for time wherever that thing is, compared to us caught in linear time?
There might be no way out without permission/cooperation/manipulation of whoever/whatever made the computing substrate generating us?