LONDON: Our universe may actually be two dimensional but appears three dimensional – just like a hologram, according to scientists, including those from India.
One of the most fruitful theories of theoretical physics in the last two decades is challenging the assumption that the universe is three dimensional, researchers said.
The “holographic principle” asserts that a mathematical description of the universe actually requires one fewer dimension than it seems. “What we perceive as three dimensional may just be the image of two dimensional processes on a huge cosmic horizon,” researchers said.
Up until now, this principle has only been studied in exotic spaces with negative curvature. However, such spaces are quite different from the space in our own universe. Results obtained by scientists at Vienna University of Technology and colleagues now suggest that the holographic principle even holds in a flat spacetime. Holograms are 2D, but to us they appear three dimensional. Our universe could behave quite similarly, researchers said. In 1997, physicist Juan Maldacena proposed the idea that there is a correspondence between gravitational theories in curved anti-de-sitter spaces on the one hand and quantum field theories in spaces with one fewer dimension on the other, said Daniel Grumiller from Vienna University of Technology.
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