Those of us who have thrilled to Michael Talbot's classic of meta-fortean speculation, <em><a href="http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html" target="_blank">The Holographic Universe</a> </em>or the denser work of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm#The_holonomic_model_of_the_brain" target="_blank">David Bohm</a> will be happy to hear that the idea is rippling its way back into focus. This from <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&amp;nsref=online-news" target="_blank">New Scientist</a>:

<em>Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in...
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<em>Hogan, who has </em><em>just been appointed </em><em>director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."</em>

<em>The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.</em>

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