The universe may be a hologram, according to a new mathematical model developed at the Vienna University of Technology. If this is true, it means we could all be living our lives in just two spatial dimensions, rather than the familiar three of length, width and height.

 

The idea of a  holographic universe shows that the physical world that we perceive through our senses as being real is in fact an illusion. Energy fields are in fact decoded by our brains into a 3D picture, to give the illusion of a physical world, as described in the following video.