For our holography gang: Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram : Nature News & Comment

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For our holography gang: Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram : Nature News & Comment

Tom Johnson
http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328

A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.

In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed1 that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity....

-tj

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