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Going back to the original post... There was a recent Science Fiction movie that used the same concept of stacked mobile homes to build a ghetto for those of the lower classes. It portrayed a much grayer, bleaker future.

 

Ready Player one?

Edit : Yep....that's it!

 

This is yet another case of the headline writer not understanding the article s/he is writing the headline for. That article talks about some of the theories that could help explain physics and the universe, but the headline writer unreasonably jumps to "proof".

This is a common problem. One must remember to not blame an article's author for a bad or misleading headline, because the author isn't the person who writes the headline.

A serious problem with string theories is that, not only can they explain nearly everything that is, they can also explain nearly every possibility that isn't. They describe and explain not just the universe we live in, but nearly all other imaginable universes too. That makes it very difficult to falsify them, or to use them to predict outcomes of experiments, because for nearly any imaginable outcome, there is a string theory choice or parameter set to fit it.

 

I very strongly doubt that anyone is seeing any holograms at this time. Any such observations must wait for more powerful future equipment.

Two things are being seen now. Close in, they are seeing the extremely bright accretion disk orbiting a black hole, with the hole's shadow across it. (Just one so far, a second is still in the works.) Farther out, they are seeing gravitational lensing of objects behind, functionally the same as other gravitational lensing around massive galaxy clusters. All this happens outside the black hole, outside the zone where quantum mechanics and general relativity collide, and outside the frame of any hologram.

If there are any holographic representations to be seen, observation will require significantly higher resolution than we can achieve now, sensing across much broader wavelength bands to see emissions that are gravitationally redshifted much more than the most cosmologically redshifted galaxies now being explored by Hubble. And also with better dynamic range, to see faint details very close to that blazingly bright accretion disk.

There is plenty more to be seen, that we just aren't able to see yet, and won't be able to see for quite some time. That gives theorists plenty of room to work and speculate, and produce plenty more wild goose chase concepts, hopefully along with some more good ones that eventually prove out.