The universe may be a giant hologram

Our world may be a giant hologram - space - 15 January 2009 - New Scientist

So what would it mean it if holographic noise has been found? Cramer likens it to the discovery
of unexpected noise by an antenna at Bell Labs in New Jersey in 1964.
That noise turned out to be the cosmic microwave background, the
afterglow of the big bang fireball. "Not only did it earn Arno Penzias
and Robert Wilson a Nobel prize, but it confirmed the big bang and opened up a whole field of cosmology," says Cramer.

Hogan is more specific. "Forget Quantum of Solace,
we would have directly observed the quantum of time," says Hogan. "It's
the smallest possible interval of time - the Planck length divided by
the speed of light."

More
importantly, confirming the holographic principle would be a big help
to researchers trying to unite quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory
of gravity. Today the most popular approach to quantum gravity is
string theory, which researchers hope could describe happenings in the
universe at the most fundamental level. But it is not the only show in town.
"Holographic space-time is used in certain approaches to quantising
gravity that have a strong connection to string theory," says Cramer.
"Consequently, some quantum gravity theories might be falsified and
others reinforced."

  


It also would seem to support the idea that the universe is not fundamental but is manifested and determined by something along the lines of Platonic Ideals or the causal plane, a dream in the mind of Lord Brahma, a mental process or spiritual plane perhaps connected with Jung's Collective Unconscious, God and so forth. "God" not by any means to be confused with the Judeo-Christian-Islamic notion of God, which when stripped of all the nice rhetoric is in practice nothing but a tarted-up tribal fire-demon or somesuch cosmic joke, but the Real Thing, the Tao, which cannot be named, cannot be told, which we could comprehend perhaps nearly as well as a virus could speak French.