How likely is our universe a hologram?

There is a 50% chance. That's how odds always work out when you have insufficient information. It's like asking what are my chances of winning the lottery. We need a lot more information to come up with actual odds. Which game are you playing, how many tickets did you buy, did you even buy a ticket at all, etc. We don't know nearly enough about the universe yet to come up with any "chances" other than 50%. It either is a hologram, or it isn't. Just like your odds of winning the lottery are 50% unless we have more information. You either will win it or you won't. Then we get some more information and say learn that you didn't even buy a ticket. Then your chances go from 50% to 0. Similarly just one more discovery could change those odds from 50% to 100%, or to 0%. Of course many people don't understand what is meant by a holographic universe. It doesn't mean it's any less real. Just that it doesn't contain as many physical dimensions as we perceive. A hologram appears 3 dimensional, but is actually 2 dimensional.

Very likely: Yes.

And understand the proof of a theory isn't in a consensus of scientistts think it sounds good, its proven by a mathematical equation and a proof. So the math exists in massive equations that say yes. At the same time, massive calculations can result in errors so they have to be checked, examined etc. Right now it seems the math is correct. but even Einstein had errors that he had to correct, Famously, that light bends around the sun during an eclipse was based on a calculation he knew was incorrect. He spent almost a year nervously trying to resolve his math before publishing his conclusions, knowing a Nobel Prize hung in the balance.

Read Leonard Susskind's Black Hole Wars, to see how he goes to solving the information paradox to formulating ( et al) the Hologram Theory. A brilliant physicist and a challenging book to read, but worth the effort.

Part of the challenge is that there's no other way to answer the question - Where is the information kept about an object. Whether falling into a blackhole or oour universe has to maintain its info someplace.

"How likely is our universe a hologram?"

As likely as you being a hologram, and pain and death are holograms. It cannot possibly matter what idiot "label" is substituted for "French Monadism", it is still a pointless dead end.

So 100% waste of thought.

GEO600

I think naysayers, are just naysayers because they are very one dimensional. It's not their fault because they've been trained to think that way. Plus, they're not very bright to begin with.

The possibility certainly exists. While it may not be a holograph being projected from some far off place from a computer, it could be a holograph that is being projected from right next to us, inter dimensionally. The easiest way to think about this, is to think about it in a naturalistic sense.

It is certainly an illusion for human eyes as such are not able to see all that is our there.

as yet we have to develop etheric vision naturally to see all the light spectrums available. Wee children are now being born with this faculty of the physiacl eye. Not a psychic condition !

Not likely at all.

Someone watching too much Star Trek......................

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