WELCOME TO THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE
Picture a room filled with books. Then imagine that all the books suddenly disappear. All the information they contained would be lost, right? All the plot lines, characters and happy endings would vanish into thin air. But this library is different. Here all the information inside the room is also encoded on the floor, the walls and the ceiling. Even though the books themselves are gone, you can still retrieve all of the details they contained by looking at the surfaces that once enclosed them. Want to know how that story ended? Read the wallpaper. Whodunnit? Consult the carpet. Sounds downright weird, doesn’t it?
Our imaginary library gets stranger though. If the books disappeared, but the information in them didn’t, did the books even exist at all? Or were they just a projection of the information on the walls, carpet and ceiling? After all, holograms like the ones found on credit cards work in a similar fashion. Viewed in one way they look three dimensional, but all the information they contain is actually encoded in only two dimensions. It is the same information presented differently.
The remarkable thing is that there
