However, this research could also be flawed. Read more in Dr Kaku’s blog on http://bigthink.com/ideas/41222

As explained in 2012 The Symphony, “…this whole concept of life as a ‘holographic illusion’ has been corroborated by several physicists trying to explain the nature of life. Alain Aspect, from the University of Paris, did an experiment in 1982 that showed that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantly communicate with each other, irrespective of the distance between them which could range from 10 to 10 billion kilometres.

Then David Bohm from the University of London suggested that these findings indicate that reality does not actually physically exist, but is in fact a very sophisticated hologram – in other words, a three-dimensional photograph made with the help of a laser. Sounds fantastic – yes, but I’ll explain his reasoning. To create a hologram, you shine a laser beam onto an object, then shine a second laser beam off the reflected light of the first, and the area where the two lasers combine is captured on film. When the developed film is lit up by a third laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the object appears.

The interesting thing about holograms is, unlike normal photographs, every small part of them has all the information of the whole picture. This is why Bohm suggested that the universe is a hologram, because he believed that subatomic particles are not communicating using a signal, but rather because they are part of the same thing.

Karl Pribram, a neurosurgeon from Stanford, independently found the same thing when he was researching how and where memories are stored in the brain. Many studies have shown that memories are located throughout the brain and not in any specific location. Pribam concluded from his experiments that memories are located not in the brain’s neurons, but rather in patterns of impulses that crisscross the whole brain, in the same way as laser lights can crisscross a piece of film containing a holographic image.

His theories also explain why the brain can store so much information – ie about 10 billion bits in a lifetime – in such a small space, because holograms have the ability to store a huge amount of information. And when you think about how the brain works, when we are asked what comes to mind when we say a particular word, tons of associations come to mind immediately – which is another feature of the hologram.

This is theoretical physics – quantum physics – of course, but as yet is the most likely interpretation of life that has been developed.”

An experiment being conducted in the German countryside south of Hanover has also found some truth in this theory. An extract from this article published in the New Scientist discusses what was found by a giant detector known as the GEO600, set up to look for gravitational waves.

“For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it.
According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time – the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into “grains”, just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. “It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time,” says Hogan.
If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.”
The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.
The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard ‘t Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.
The “holographic principle” challenges our sensibilities. It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true.”

According to Fritzof Capra: “every subatomic particle not only performs an energy dance, but also is an energy dance; a pulsating process of creation and destruction…without end…For the modern physicists, then Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter. As in Hindu mythology, it is a continual dance of creation and destruction involving the whole cosmos; the basis of all existence and of all natural phenomena.”

In fact, the plaque next to the 2m statue of the dancing Shiva at CERN, the European Centre for Research and Particle Physics in Geneva, says: “Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.”

“The source of all movement,
Shiva’s dance,
Gives rhythm to the universe.
He dances in evil places,
In sacred,
He creates and preserves,
Destroys and releases.

We are part of this dance
This eternal rhythm,
And woe to us if, blinded
By illusions,
We detach ourselves
From the dancing cosmos,
This universal harmony…”

by Ruth Peel