New Scientist - Our world may be a giant hologram

[padren]

Posting it here because it does seem to be a huge speculation.

 

I read it and the series of conclusions seemed a little odd to me, and it does at least state clearly it's pretty speculative.

 

Anyone have any thoughts - is this actually possible?

 

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true&print=true

[swansont]

I've seen this before somewhere. AFAICT the idea here isn't that what we see is literally a hologram, it's that information in the universe may be encoded in a way similar to holograms, i.e. 3-dimensional information being stored in a 2-dimensional space. An example they give is that the information about a black hole might be encoded in the surface defined by the event horizon.