"The world as we perceive might not actually exist. It could just be a hologram. This statement sounds more like a thought you've had at 3 am than a scientific theory, but the existence of a holographic universe is more possible than you think. Some theoretical work shows that the universe could exist in a dimension lower than the one our minds perceive. The debate over what’s called “the holographic principle” has largely remained theoretical"
http://physicsbuzz.physicscentral.com/2019/05/is-universe-hologram-future-telescopes.html?m=1
"Since the 1990s, some physicists have suggested our reality is like a 3D projection of a two-dimensional universe."
https://www.cnet.com/news/holographic-universe-hologram-reality-big-bang-physics/
"theory in physics, the idea that the universe is a hologram. It's also called the holographic principle."
https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2018/november/thetake-podcast-hologram.html
"A holographic universe, an idea first suggested in the 1990s, is one where all the information, which makes up our 3D ‘reality’ (plus time) is contained in a 2D surface on its boundaries."
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2017/01/holographic-universe.page
"A holographic Universe means information that makes up what we perceive as a 3D reality is stored on a 2D surface, including time. This means, essentially, everything you see and experience is an illusion."
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/our-universe-is-a-hologram
"There’s been a heated debate roaming around the internet about whether the earth is flat or round. Now, thanks to a bit of research, we can argue over whether the universe is a hologram."
https://ourcommunitynow.com/news-world/listen-up-flat-earthers-the-universe-could-be-a-hologram
"In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed1 that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity."
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.14328
"There’s nothing wrong with wondering, philosophically, whether the world as we know it is a Matrix-style simulation. It’s just a different question from the one physicists are trying to address when they investigate the holographic principle."
https://news.fnal.gov/2014/09/what-is-the-holographic-principle/
Professor Stephen Hawking's final theory: The universe is a hologram
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/02/professor-stephen-hawkings-final-theory-universe-hologram/
We're Probably Living in a Simulation, Elon Musk Says
https://www.space.com/41749-elon-musk-living-in-simulation-rogan-podcast.html
"Ever since the philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed in the Philosophical Quarterly that the universe and everything in it might be a simulation, there has been intense public speculation and debate about the nature of reality. Such public intellectuals as Tesla leader and prolific Twitter gadfly Elon Musk have opined about the statistical inevitability of our world being little more than cascading green code. Recent papers have built on the original hypothesis to further refine the statistical bounds of the hypothesis, arguing that the chance that we live in a simulation may be 50–50."
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/confirmed-we-live-in-a-simulation/
"Elon Musk says he firmly believes reality is a simulation created by a superintelligence."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/8q854v/elon-musk-simulated-universe-hypothesis
"The news was snuck without attribution or comment into a New Yorker profile of Silicon Valley venture capitalist Sam Altman, a brief sentence that might be our first warning of the apocalypse: “Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer; two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation.”"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/10/silicon-valley-is-obsessed-with-a-false-notion-of-reality/503963/
"A NASA scientist has come to the conclusion that our reality is an elaborate hologram created by an alien race. Dr. Rich Terrile, the director of the Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has said that we can all be the creation of a cosmic computer programmer as opposed to a God."
https://movieweb.com/nasa-scientist-earth-alien-created-hologram/
"Yaldabaoth organized everything after the pattern of the first realms that had come into being, so that he might create everything in an incorruptible form. Not that he had seen the incorruptible ones. Rather, the power that is in him, that he had taken from his mother, produced in him the pattern for the world order."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apocjn-meyer.html
"Yaldabaoth, the presumed all-mighty creator God, really creates nothing; instead, he copies from "archetypal" patterns in the Pleroma."
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/biblianazar/esp_biblianazar_jehovah07.htm
"Yaldabaoth copied and mimicked what he saw as a likeness of the Pleroma in the waters when Sophia appeared in the waters. From that vision, he created his own “Pleroma”"
https://wespenrevideos.com/2020/05/26/gnosis-part-6-yaldabaoth/
"As Sophia’s son, Yaldabaoth had the model of the Pleroma within himself. He created the material world based on that model, but because of his ignorance and depravity, it came out all wrong. It was a corrupted and far inferior simulacrum of the divine model."
https://gnosticismexplained.org/the-gnostic-creation-myth/