Physicists have found the information content doesn't hinge on volume, but rather on surface area. An information increase can only happen on a two-dimensional surface and information density cannot increase by volume, a three-dimensional measurement.
"The total amount of information that you can store in the world grows only like the surface area of the region that you're considering," he said.
The discovery ultimately says the concept shows the third dimension could be an illusion because complex calculations can't prove it exists.
This seems to me to say that we are all flatlander after all. It also makes me curious about how this fits or potentially refutes string theory [relying as it does an 10 dimensions]. The further importance of this may lie in the popularity of the holographic universe idea with some newagery. Definitely something to try to keep an eye on.
The Universe is Only Pretending, Physicist Says - The Daily Californian
3-D, cosmology, physics, relativity, holographic_universe
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