When reading that article, while I don't have the background for all of it, I find that most of it sounds fairly plausible, until I get to this: "In 1995, Sussk

When reading that article, while I don't have the background for all of it, I find that most of it sounds fairly plausible, until I get to this: "In 1995, Susskind, along with collaborators Tom Banks, Willy Fischler, and Stephen Shenker, presented a formulation of the new M-theory using a holographic description in terms of charged point black holes, the D0 branes of type IIA string theory. The Matrix theory they proposed was first suggested as a description of two branes in 11-dimensional supergravity by Bernard de Wit, Jens Hoppe, and Hermann Nicolai" at which point I start to suspect that this is all just made up technobabble.