article_snippet: strings are holograms of events that take place in a simpler, flatter cosmos .
article_snippet: the universe is a hologram and everything you can see - including this article and the device you are reading it on - is a mere projection.
article_snippet: strings are holograms of events that take place in a simpler, flatter cosmos. 
article_snippet: the holographic principle suggests that, like the security chip on a credit card for example, there is a two-dimensional surface that contains all the information needed to describe a three-dimensional object - which in this case is our universe.
article_snippet: In essence, the holographic principle claims that data containing a description of a volume of space - such as a human or a comet - could be hidden in a region of this flattened, 'real' version of the universe.
article_snippet: In a black hole, for instance, all the objects that ever fall into it would be entirely contained in surface fluctuations.
article_snippet: This means that the objects would be stored almost as 'memory' or fragment of data rather than a physical object in existence.