The Universe as a Holographic Projection

Scientists and researchers the world over have discovered enough evidence to suggest that the universe is a hologram.

Now before we further delve into the holographic concept, let us digress to first understand what a hologram is. A hologram is a 3D photograph made with the aid of a laser. Actually, the object to be photographed is first immersed in the light of a laser beam. A second laser beam is rebounded off the reflected light of the first. This results in an interference pattern which is captured on film. When developed, the film produces a meaningless criss-cross of light and dark lines. However, if the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears.

Unlike normal photographs, a remarkable feature of holograms is that however much you cut and divide the holographic film, every clip of film contains the intact version of the original image, albeit a smaller one. Every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole!! Thus, if we try to take apart something constructed holographically, instead of getting the pieces of which it is made, we will only get the smaller wholes.

Now let us come to the part at to why we are forced to consider the universe as a holographic projection of some deeper reality. Alain Aspect, a research physicist at the University of Paris, and his team conducted an experiment which led to the discovery that subatomic particles such as electrons can instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. This contradicts the Theory of Relativity's postulation that nothing can travel at speeds faster than light. However, the two electrons that are a billion light years apart can still communicate instantaneously.

I would like to stress here the fact that at sub-atomic levels, matter ceases to exist. What do exist are resonance points of two or more vibrations. This means that electrons are no more matter but mere points where resonance of several frequencies. This stems in part from the fact that electrons exhibit properties of both wave and particle, amply demonstrated by Young's Double Slit experiment.

So can we safely conclude that objective reality does not exist? And that at a deeper level the Universe is an apparition, in spite of the apparent solidity? On the basis of this conclusion we can say that the separateness of the electrons in the experiment and, thus, our individual separateness is merely an illusion. This is what the ancient Hindu Seers called Maya. The Universe is a projection of some fundamental reality - a holographic projection, to be precise.

All that we can, at present, do is to visualize this concept. We are helpless otherwise. Let me present an illustration used by none other than David Bohm, the University of London physicist to help us better visualize this startling concept.

Consider a fish in an aquarium. Also, let us assume that we are unable to see this aquarium directly. Our knowledge about this is acquired by what is shown on four screens by four cameras positioned at four different angles. The images shown on screen are thus different. Now as we continue to observe we become aware of simultaneous movements of the different images, as if a relationship exists between them. We can, thus, erroneously conclude that some sort of instantaneous communication exists between the four images. When actually they are the one and the same!!

This is exactly the scenario at the sub-atomic level. Fundamentally, and at a deeper level we are all one and the same. There is no separateness - you and I are one - ultimately as indivisible as a holographic image!!

In this holographic projection of the Universe, even space and time cease to exist separately. The past, present and future are rolled into the eternal NOW. The Brahmanic concept of ‘This Is All That Is' could never have been more true!