The following are excepts from my award-winning book, The Truman Show: It’s True, Man! - avaible at thetrumanshowistrue.com….

  I am not an expert in quantum physics, or the holographic universe, or a trained movie critic, or anything else like that. I am simply someone who reads what the physics experts are saying today and uses standard logic to draw conclusions from their statements. I guess the best description is that I am an “investigative reporter” passing along information that seems to be important if what the experts are saying is true.

  If you haven’t seen the movie, The Truman Show, starring Jim Carrey, close this book now and go watch it. And it doesn't matter whether you watch the original 1998 version, the Special Edition version, or the 25th Anniversary version. Just watch whatever you can find (avaible to rent or buy on Amazon.com and Youtube.com).

  Once you’ve seen the movie, this book is going to try to convince you that the movie is the most accurate expnation of how our world actually works that has ever been written, produced, or offered to humanity in any form by any one at any time. In fact, the most recent research in physics is proving that Andrew Niccol, who wrote the screenpy for The Truman Show, may be one of the greatest prophets of our era ― although he apparently is unaware of it.

  You can find any number of so-called “film critics” on the internet who will offer their own specution about The Truman Show and what it represents. Here’s just one example from The Atntic magazine: “The film culminates in a hectic collision of metaphors: for religion, for politics, for the question of what the individual owes to the collective, and vice versa. Truman struggles to be himself in an environment built to enclose him.”[

  But that’s not what this book is about. Despite what anyone else might tell you, there’s no metaphor in The Truman Show that needs to be deciphered; there’s no hidden meaning lurking behind the scenes that needs to be uncovered and expined. Everything you need to know about The Truman Show is staring you in the face from the screen right there in front of you, in pin English. It’s about the fact that for the first time in human history, someone is showing us how our world really works. And it isn’t what every religion in history has cimed, or every philosopher, or even every poet. But it is very possibly, finally, The Truth, and we need to pay attention, because the Truth has ramifications that we must become aware of and then change our behavior accordingly. If we continue to ignore The Truth, we do so at our own peril.

  What you are about to read is shocking and admittedly has not been “proven” yet. But many of Einstein’s theories ― now widely accepted ― weren’t proven during his lifetime either. So, allow yourself to at least consider the possibilities you are going to read because they may well become mainstream in a few years and you will have to change your beliefs and your life accordingly, either now or then….

  SHOCKER #1: According to some of the most well-respected and well-known physicists in the world, and based on the test research, we are living in a hologram: Our “reality” is a virtual image, an illusion that isn’t real.

  Described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century, David Bohm was an American-Brazilian-British scientist who believed “that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity, the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.”[i

  Amit Goswami is a theoretical nuclear physicist and member of The University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics since 1968…. “Quantum mathematics — which is, in our belief, the most fundamental mathematics, the most accurate mathematical description of nature that we have discovered — this mathematics shows us clearly that the movements of objects are describable only in terms of possibilities, not the actual events that happen in our experience.” [ii

  And here is what Dr. Leonard Susskind, professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, said in one of his lectures in 2011…

  “There’s a quote that I like… very much that comes from a famous intellectual by the name of Sherlock Holmes, and it says, ‘when you have eliminated all that is impossible, whatever remains must be the truth, no matter how improbable.’

  “The thing I am going to tell you tonight is one of those things which seems nutty; It seems wildly improbable. But it wasn't just something that some of us — I wasn't alone in saying this — that some of us just said one day, ‘Oh, maybe the world is a hologram.’ That's not the way it happened. The way it happened was exactly this way: when you eliminate everything that's impossible, whatever is left over must be the truth.

  “Good. Okay. What is this thing which Sherlock Holmes might have eventually concluded after trying everything else? And the answer is that in a certain sense, in a certain peculiar sense, the world is a hologram.

  “Now… the idea that the world is a hologram is a wild idea, or at least a seemingly wild idea. But that is what we now believe, and there's an enormous amount of very very sharp mathematical evidence for this. It's not something that was just made up for fun... ‘Oh, the world is a hologram, or a bck hole is a hologram.’ There is very sharp mathematics to it…. And what I'm going to tell you next is it's not just bck holes which are holograms. But in a certain sense the entire universe can be represented as a hologram, or any finite region of the Universe, any big chunk of the Universe can be represented as a hologram.

  “Is the three-dimensional world an illusion in the same sense that a hologram is an illusion? Perhaps. I think...I'm inclined to think Yes, that the three-dimensional world is a kind of illusion, and that the ultimate precise reality is the two-dimensional reality at the surface of the universe.”[iv]

  Dr. Jacob D. Bekenstein, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said, “An astonishing theory called the holographic principle holds that the universe is like a hologram.... The physics of bck holes — immensely dense concentrations of mass — provides a hint that the principle might be true.”[v]

  There is a TV series on the Discovery Channel called Nova, and in November of 2011 they broadcast a show called “The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space.” It was hosted by Brian Greene, theoretical physicist and professor of physics at Columbia University, who wrote the book called The Fabric of the Cosmos. He said…

  “Surprising new clues are emerging that everything — you and I, and even space itself — may actually be a kind of hologram. That is, everything we see and experience — everything we call our familiar three-dimensional reality — may be a projection of information that's stored on a thin, distant two-dimensional surface.

  “Now, holograms are something we're all familiar with, from the security symbol you find on most credit cards. But the universe as a hologram? That's one of the most drastic revisions to our picture of space and reality ever proposed.”

  “Here's a way to think about this... imagine I took my wallet and threw it into a bck hole. What would happen? We used to think that since nothing — not even light — can escape the immense gravity of a bck hole, my wallet would be lost forever. But it now seems that may not be the whole story.

  “Recently, scientists exploring the math describing bck holes made a curious discovery. Even as my wallet disappears into the bck hole, a copy of all the information it contains seems to get smeared out and stored on the surface of the bck hole, much the same way that information is stored in a computer.

  “So, in the end, my wallet exists in two pces. There's a three-dimensional version that's lost forever inside the bck hole, and a two-dimensional version that remains on the surface as information. The information content of all the stuff that fell into that bck hole can be expressed entirely in terms of just the outside of the bck hole. The idea then is that you can capture what's going on inside the bck hole by referring only to the outside.

  “And in theory, I could use the information on the outside of the bck hole to reconstruct my wallet. And here's the truly mind-blowing part. Space within a bck hole pys by the same rules as space outside a bck hole, or anywhere else. So, if an object inside a bck hole can be described by information on the bck hole's surface, then it might be that everything in the universe — from gaxies and stars, to you and me, even space itself — is just a projection of information stored on some distant two-dimensional surface that surrounds us.

  “In other words, what we experience as reality may be something like a hologram. The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of bck holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.”[v

  And Dr. S. James Gates, Jr., who holds the Crk Leadership Chair in Science with the physics department at the University of Marynd College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences, put it this way….

  “This is a real disconnect, and it's very hard to get your head around. Modern ideas coming from bck holes tell us that reality is two-dimensional, that the three-dimensional world — the full-bodied three-dimensional world — is a kind of image of a hologram on the boundary of the region of space…. This is a very strange thing! When I was a younger physicist, I would have thought any physicist who said that was absolutely crazy.”[vi

  Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe, expined it this way: “Creating the illusion that things are located where they are NOT is the quintessential feature of a hologram…. If you look at a hologram, it seems to have extension in space, but if you pass your hand through it, you will find there is nothing there…. Despite what your senses tell you, no instrument will pick up any energy or substance where the hologram appears to be hovering. This is because a hologram is a virtual image, an image that appears to be where it is not…. It is retively easy to understand this idea of holism in something that is external to us, like an apple in a hologram. What makes this difficult is that we are not looking at the hologram; we are part of the hologram.”[vii

  To which Amit Goswami suggests: “This is the only radical thinking that you need to do. But it is so radical, it is so difficult, because our tendency is that the world is already ‘out there,’ independent of my experience. It is not. Quantum Physics has been so clear about it.”[ix]

  It’s hard to argue with the impressive, heavyweight firepower behind the idea that we’re living in a beautifully conceived and constructed hologram ― like we’re inside one of our best video games avaible today. But so what? What if we are living in a hologram? What difference does it make?

  I think you’re going to find it makes all the difference in the world when you understand, accept, and apply the knowledge that what you see “out there” is not real ― the very definition of a hologram.

  [ The Atntic, The Real Lesson of The Truman Show

  [i Talbot, Michael. A 2006 essay entitled “The Holographic Universe: Does Objective Reality Exist?”

  [ii Goswami, Amit, What the Bleep!? – Down the Rabbit Hole

  [iv] Susskind, Leonard, The World As Hologram, University of Toronto, 2011

  [v] Bekenstein, Jacob D., Ph.D., Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “Information in the Holographic Universe,” Scientific American, August 2003

  [v Greene, Brian, The Fabric of the Cosmos: What is Space?

  [vi Gates, S. James, Jr., Ibid.

  [vii Talbot, Michael. The Holographic Universe, pp. 25, 46

  [ix] Goswami, Amit. What the Bleep!? – Down the Rabbit Hole