Some of the world's leading physicists believe that our reality is really a projection—sort of like a hologram—of laws and processes that might propagate from the outer edge of the universe.
This seemingly outlandish notion grew out of a debate over whether black holes wipe out the information that makes up the very matter that they consume in beyond the event horizon. If information was "lost" in this way, as Stephen Hawking had earlier suggested, it would have turned known physics on it's head. However, the counter argument is no less hard to believe.
The following is a World Science Festival panel discussion on this holographic principle.
A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram (Full)
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