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TIL: In 2017, the "holographic" universe theory came back after a UK, Canadian, and Italian study provided the first observational evidence for the explanation. The theory is that our "3d" reality is contained in a 2D surface and that the entire universe is encoded like a 3D movie or a hologram.

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