On: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe

[stevenh]

You cannot code a particle simulator that perfectly mimics 3D space despite each particle only having two spatial location variables.

We all have that new agey friend on FB who will inevitably share this nonsense. Do we really need to be dealing with it on HN? What's next, Minion memes?

[HisGraceTheDuck → stevenh]

The holographic principle proposes a much more complex relationship between the 3 dimensional (plus 1 time dimension) universe we experience and a 2 dimensional (plus 1 time dimension) model that could provide insights into many interesting areas of physics including QFT, Cosmology, Black Holes, etc.

There is a very well developed model of how this relationship could work in a simpler case. I suggest you have a look at this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence

Hopefully this mathematical model will convince you that the holographic principle is, at the very least, more mature than a minion meme.