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My universe-as-a-hologram story is most read Nature article in 2013

December 16, 2013 Ron Cowen

My news story for Nature on new simulations indicating that higher dimensional universes may be holograms of lower dimensional ones, with the same physics, was cited as the most read online news story by Nature readers in 2013, with more than 1.2 million hits so far.

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Science Writer

Ron Cowen

Award-winning science writer with a passionate interest in the intersection of popular culture and the physical sciences. Articles include features and news stories on the earliest known recorded sounds, an essay on Hubble Space Telescope photography and evidence suggesting the universe is a hologram.

Dubbed “the scoop machine,” by the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, Ron has been published in National Geographic, Nature, The New York Times, Science, Science News, Scientific American, and US News & World Report.

To get in touch with Ron, email him at roncowen [at] msn.com.