All An Illusion?
Leonard Susskind and Nobel Prize winner, Gerard ‘t Hooft, say that the information from black holes suggests that our universe and everyday experiences might be something like the holograms on credit cards, which are 2D but become 3D due to the light reflection. ( "Our world may be a giant hologram", New Scientist).
So perhaps our lives and our perception of the universe is all an illusion?
In one striking example of a holographic universe, Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced Study constructed a mathematical model of a “soup can” universe; where what happened inside the can, including gravity, is encoded in the label on the outside of the can, where there was no gravity, as well as one less spatial dimension. If dimensions don’t matter and gravity doesn’t matter, how real can they be? New York Times
So, what we think of as a three-dimensional universe, maybe only a holographic projection coming from the particle horizon around 13.7 billion light-years away.
Theoretical physicists from the University of Southampton believe they have found signs that our Universe is an illusion by studying the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – radiation left over from the Big Bang. The latest study, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, contains the first proof, the researchers say, that the universe is actually an illusion, or a hologram.
