I'm not a string theorists, but based on some black hole physics, information is never lost. If a particle goes past the "event horizon", the observer (us), can discern this information as it is projected holographically outside the black hole. So if Bob falls in, you still see Bob's image ingrained on the black hole, even though Bob is long gone. So if the universe is a giant black hole, then all the information would be stored holographically at its outer most edge. I guess our perception of depth and 3-D is due to the fact that we reside on this surface. If an ant were navigating an electric wire, it too would have 3-D depth, as it's moving along what is the shape of a cylinder. But the observer (us) does not see the ant and only sees the wire in two diminesions (length and width). Then you have M-theory in which these flat branes exist in an extra, 11th dimension (the multiverse) and collide with one another every few trillion years resulting in a Big Bang.
look up to the sky and SEEEEEEE...
