Parapsychology: The Holographic Principle:
The Holographic Principle is a fascinating idea in theoretical physics that suggests our entire universe might be a projection or “hologram” from a lower-dimensional surface. It originated from the study of black holes, particularly from the work of physicists like Gerard ‘t Hooft and Leonard Susskind. The principle essentially proposes that all the information about the three-dimensional space we experience could be encoded on a two-dimensional boundary at the cosmological horizon.
This idea was inspired by the study of black holes and the so-called black hole information paradox. According to the laws of quantum mechanics, information cannot be lost, but when matter falls into a black hole, it’s unclear what happens to it. The Holographic Principle suggests that the information about the matter inside the black hole is not lost but instead stored on the event horizon (the boundary of the black hole). This would imply that our entire universe might operate similarly, with the information of our 3D world encoded in a 2D “surface.”
The principle has significant implications for understanding space, time, and the nature of reality. Some physicists even speculate that our universe might be a projection of data on a distant boundary, much like a hologram.
Shervan K Shahhian
LIBERTY PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 