I am reading about and attempting to discuss the holographic principle, a conjecture in theoretical physics that the three-dimensional universe is a projection of a two-dimensional (i.e., surface area) encoding¹. This would imply that all the particles and properties and everything of our universe may be compressedsubstantially without losing information: reality is a (logical, not literal) projection of a very large bitmap. The theory also could “explain” surprising properties of the un...