New mathematics reenforces the idea that our universe is probably a holographic projection running on a gravity-free single dimension, with "its menagerie of quantum particles resembles a group of idealized springs, or harmonic oscillators, attached to one another"

Harmonic oscillators attached to each other? To me, this sounds like an impossibly complex neural network, within the "simpler, flatter cosmos" that underlies our dimension.  You could probably also label this base dimension as the god's abode, or 'heaven' if you prefer.

In other words, our universe is probably a holographic simulation running in the mind of god - within heaven.

Pretty much what all the major religions sort of say.. and rather obvious when you think about it.

(And thinking about it is the whole point of it all,  because by understanding the universe, we help the universe, or god, understand itself and so become ever more self-aware).

From http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328

Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram

A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions.

at http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328

In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed¹ that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity.


Maldacena's idea thrilled physicists because it offered a way to put the popular but still unproven theory of strings on solid footing — and because it solved apparent inconsistencies between quantum physics and Einstein's theory of gravity. It provided physicists with a mathematical Rosetta stone, a 'duality', that allowed them to translate back and forth between the two languages, and solve problems in one model that seemed intractable in the other and vice versa. But although the validity of Maldacena's ideas has pretty much been taken for granted ever since, a rigorous proof has been elusive.

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Neither of the model universes explored by the Japanese team resembles our own, Maldacena notes. The cosmos with a black hole has ten dimensions, with eight of them forming an eight-dimensional sphere. The lower-dimensional, gravity-free one has but a single dimension, and its menagerie of quantum particles resembles a group of idealized springs, or harmonic oscillators, attached to one another.