The images on your data processor screen also exist in software as a series of one and zeros . The medicine come up from your phone might amount from those same unity and zeros – or from carefully - contract plastic , or from laser - engrave alloy . A lot of thing you interact with day by day descend from information that ’s stored in many formats … and so are you . According to physicist Leonard Susskind , the three - dimensional universe is a hologram , a projection of two - dimensional information stored along the edge of the universe .
“ This is a genuine disconnection and it ’s very hard to get your head around , ” say Susskind in the first episode of NOVA ’s The Fabric of the Cosmos with Brian Greene . But the construct of the world as a hologram arises from the numerical study of black holes . When an object – say a carmine rubber eraser ball – gets sucked into a black fix , it passes the result horizon and is lost . The distinctions that make that object unique , however , do not disappear . or else , entropy about the ball ’s redness and spherical shape open over the airfoil of the upshot horizon , form a two - dimensional plate of information . Theoretically , a calculator could even use that plate to construct a duplicate of the original ball .
The math that describes the black fix ’s information shell matches the math describe the macrocosm as a holograph . Although the concept seems utterly alien , Susskind says , “ I call back it ’s already reached a consensus ” in the theoretical physic residential district . Still , the hypothesis could be testify wrong – except any experiment devised to do so would be too complex for our engineering science to enforce .
So what effect does this revamping of realness have on our lives ? concord to Susskind , not much . “ I ’m a normal human being , ” he aver , “ I do n’t think holographically . ”
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