stackyFACTSDespite what modern sci-fi promised us, real holography is just a deeply complex glass paperweight. By splitting a laser beam, bouncing one half off an object, and colliding it with the other half on a photographic plate, it freezes a 3D interference pattern that only reveals itself under the right light.
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