Hold on to your socks

This article in New Scientist blew my mind.  Basically, physicists were trying to find gravitational waves, but kept getting all this noise in their data.  And by “noise” they might actually mean they’ve figured out that we’re “living a giant cosmic hologram.”

I took a philosophy class about identity and perception once that made me reconsider my ideas about reality.  I wonder what all those philosophers we read would have to say about this?