The Illusion of Reality: Exploring the Holographic Universe Theory
Everything before us is not determined by the objective world but by the experiences and knowledge we have stored within ourselves.
The question arises: Is the universe we perceive truly the real universe?
Back in 1982, something astounding happened in a physics laboratory at the University of Paris. Under specific conditions, if basic particles (electrons) are simultaneously emitted in opposite directions, regardless of how far apart they are, they are able to communicate with each other during motion without any time delay. According to relativity theory, no material with mass can exceed the speed of light; surpassing it would mean breaking the limit of time. Faced with this phenomenon that contradicts Einstein’s theory of relativity, American quantum physicist David Bohm proposed a bold and simple hypothesis: he believed that objective reality doesn’t exist. Although the universe seems concrete and tangible, it’s merely an illusion, a vast and detailed two-dimensional holographic picture. What we perceive as the universe is merely the three-dimensional projection of this holographic picture. This is the famous holographic universe theory.
Bohm argued that the reason for such superluminal phenomena, which violate relativity, between basic particles is because everything is interconnected; all basic particles are not independently existent. To illustrate, imagine observing a snake through two separate holes without receiving any information. When the snake starts moving, each hole would show corresponding movements, leading one to believe they are two distinct snakes. However, in reality, they are just two parts of the same snake. Thus, on a large scale, despite humanity categorizing various phenomena in the universe, within the holographic theory, all classifications are mere illusions. The universe’s entirety is like a complete two-dimensional slice, and everything we see is a projection of this slice.
The inception of storing three-dimensional spatial information in a two-dimensional plane originated from our understanding of black holes. Scientists found contradictions between relativity, describing the macroscopic world, and quantum mechanics, describing the microscopic world, in explaining black hole phenomena. Initially, it was widely believed that matter swallowed by black holes would eventually be torn apart and disappear in the macroscopic world, while its information would never disappear in the quantum world. Stephen Hawking also believed that matter consumed by black holes isn’t destroyed but rather forever preserved in the two-dimensional slice of a black hole’s event horizon. The holographic universe theory suggests that before the birth of the universe, all information was imprinted on a two-dimensional disk. As information continued to increase, the two-dimensional disk couldn’t contain it, eventually transforming into a three-dimensional spherical shape. The information projected onto the surface of the sphere formed energy and matter, giving rise to the universe as we know it. Similar to a black hole, the universe imprints all information of its matter on the boundary of the universe, resembling a massive cosmic bubble, like a universal hard drive containing all source codes.
To gain mainstream acceptance for this theory, a breakthrough was achieved at the University of Southampton in England. Using supercomputers, they simulated the distribution of microwave background radiation under the holographic theory, which closely matched the known cosmic microwave radiation map drawn by the Planck satellite, providing strong support for the holographic universe theory. In further pursuit of evidence, some scientists even seek clues in the velocities of stars’ movements. They suggest that the gravitational force, once attributed to dark matter pulling on the stars’ motion, is instead provided by the aggregation and control of two-dimensional galaxies in the holographic world, proposing that dark matter doesn’t actually exist; it’s just an illusion within the holographic projection. The two-dimensional plane storing cosmic information is fixed and provides the substance of the three-dimensional universe.
Although humanity has been striving to prove that everything we see is virtual, based on current objective facts, our universe does indeed exist. Describing the universe’s structure and even the universe itself requires information. The holographic theory has introduced a new perspective for observing the world.
Perhaps, in the real universe, there are even deeper layers that we have yet to perceive, which might be the more complex
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