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A piece of hologram film doesn't look anything like the image, but it does have a certain distinct "look" to it. Much like the famous quote about not being able to define pr0n but I know it when I see it. Holograms have a certain "look" to them. It's what happens when you project a 3-D image onto a 2-D piece of film using all manner of weird wave interactions from a coherent source blah blah blah science talk blah.

So the terrible awful analogy is they're saying their simulation of a projection of some weirdness into normal space looks like our gravity and space and mom and apple pie.

The awful analogy being that the squigglies on holographic film are to the actual object, as their weird theory is to something vaguely like the space we live in, at least in some aspects. Take two things and there's a certain look to them and a certain transform in between and thats pretty much kinda whats going on in both cases.

This post exceeds the US recommended daily allowance of "kinda" "sorta" "mostly" so take it with a death star sized grain of salt. I'll laugh at anyone flaming me for not getting it exactly right cause this is simplified almost to not meaning much.



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