{"id":34008,"date":"2017-02-01T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/entire-universe-could-be-a-hologram-study-suggests"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:55:23","slug":"entire-universe-could-be-a-hologram-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/entire-universe-could-be-a-hologram-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Entire universe could be a hologram, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/entire-universe-could-be-a-hologram-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As strange as it may sound, the universe actually may be a hologram, according to a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.118.041301\">study<\/a> published in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Despite our knowledge of the universe, cosmologists have never been able to agree on a single unified model. This is because many current versions describe the cosmos with either general relativity or quantum theory, and neither of those work well together.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to bridge this gap, a team of researchers from Canada, England, and the United States, argued that a holographic explanation of the universe could provide a set model, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2017\/01\/30\/Are-we-living-in-a-giant-hologram\/1101485786467\/\"><i>UPI<\/i><\/a> reports. This is because it is able to account for irregularities in the echo of thermal energy leftover from the Big Bang, known as the cosmic microwave background.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencerecorder.com\/news\/2017\/02\/01\/entire-universe-hologram-study-suggests\/\">https:\/\/www.sciencerecorder.com\/news\/2017\/02\/01\/entire-unive...-suggests\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As strange as it may sound, the universe actually may be a hologram, according to a recent study published in the journal Physical Review Letters. Despite our knowledge of the universe, cosmologists have never been able to agree on a single unified model. This is because many current versions describe the cosmos with either general [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1923,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-holograms","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49224,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34008\/revisions\/49224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}