Researchers in Japan have provided some clear evidence that the universe may be a hologram.\nAccording to nature magazine there is now \compelling\ evidence that the universe as we know it is in fact a projection from a lower-dimensional universe.\nThe theory can be explained in simple terms as akin to a hologram on a credit card. Professor Kostas Skenderis at the University of Southampton explained the concept earlier this year.\nHe said: \The idea is similar to that of ordinary holograms where a three-dimensional image is encoded in a two-dimensional surface