Essay Abstract
Many modern approaches to quantum gravity such as various string theories and loop quantum gravity implicitly contain a holographic principle which states that the universe is based on information encoded on two dimensional surfaces. If this is true the universe is undoubtedly digital and currently contains roughly 10^123 bits.
Author Bio
Joakim Munkhammar holds a double masters degree in mathematics and astrophysics and is currently a PhD student in Energy Systems at the department of solid state physics at Uppsala University in Sweden. He has published a number of scientific- and popular papers in theoretical physics as well as in pure and applied mathematics. He also operates a mathblog (applied math and theoretical physics as well) at mathinvest.wordpress.com.