Several readers sent in news of theoretical work bolstering the proposition that the universe may be a hologram. The story begins at the German try-on GEO600, a laser inteferometer looking for gravity waves. For years, researchers there have been locating and eliminating sources of trespassing and noise from the measure (they have not yet seen a gravity wave). For months they have been puzzling over a source of noise they could not explain. Then Craig Hogan, a Fermilab physicist, approached them with a imaginable answer: that GEO600 may have stumbled upon a cornerstone limit where space-time stops behaving like a smooth continuum and instead dissolves into "grains." The "holographic principle" suggests that the universe at small scales would be "blurry," its smallest countenance far larger than Planck scale, and maybe practicable to current operose science such as the GEO600. The holographic principle, if borne out, could help conspicuous among competing superunified theory of quantum gravity, but "We think it's at least a year too early to get excited," the lead GEO600 rocket man said.

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