[arcticfox]

As far as I know, none of what you say is as cut-and-dried as you make it seem.

The Anthropic Principle is a common sense explanation to why our universe has a paradoxically perfect ("fine-tuned" by 120 orders of magnitude off what we would expect) cosmological constant that is just right for life and the universe to exist. It's somewhat horrifying, but I haven't seen a better explanation for fine-tuning. [1]

The holographic principle does not seem to be supported by a "very bizarre sect". In fact, it seems to be one of the better explanations for the black hole information paradox. [2]

Nima Arkani-Hamed dedicated a significant portion of his Messenger Lectures [3] (same lectures where Feynman delivered his famous series) to the principles that you dismiss out of hand as laughable above.

I'm a little depressed that the top comment is computer science > theoretical physics. Theoretical physics predicts quantum scale behavior to 11-digit accuracy. It's no joke.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_constant#Quantum_f... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox [3] http://www.cornell.edu/video/nima-arkani-hamed-quantum-mecha...