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Why Government Researchers Think We May Be Living in a 2D Hologram
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| 4-26-2014
| JASON KOEBLER
Posted on 08/27/2014 7:06:43 AM PDT by Ghost of SVR4
Operating with cutting-edge technology out of a trailer in rural Illinois, government researchers started today on a set of experiments that they say will help them determine whether or not you and me and everything that exists are living in a two-dimensional holographic universe.
It sounds completely off-the-walls insane, but the incongruities between Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and some of Max Planck's discoveries about the nature of matter can only be explained if we're living in a Matrix-style holographic illusion, according to Craig Hogan, director of the Department of Energy's Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics.
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If so, that would mean that the "real world is the ultimate 4-dimensional video display." In the paper, he says his team's hypothesis is that space and time are created from tiny bits of information that vary and that the relationship between space and time are created using information processing.
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Just theories of course, but fun to contemplate. If we are living in a simulation, what kind of sentient beings are observing us?
To: Ghost of SVR4
Does this mean I need a new supercomputer?
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:08:18 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Ghost of SVR4
Just One. And His angels, I suppose.
The bible does reference a “real reality” that we don’t see, and that there’s a “curtain” between our perception and that reality that God Himself can pull back when He so chooses.
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:09:20 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Ghost of SVR4
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:09:22 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: Ghost of SVR4
A couple of weeks ago, scientists said we were living in a 3D bubble inside the event horizon of a massive black hole....
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:09:48 AM PDT
by
dragonblustar
( Psalm 103, Psalm 37:7, Ephesians 6:12)
To: Ghost of SVR4
What chemicals are they brewing in that trailer?
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:10:29 AM PDT
by
bigbob
(The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
To: Paladin2
Nah... its a .99 cent Iphone app....
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:11:05 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: Ghost of SVR4
As long as they don’t change the settings for beer and women, I can handle it.
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:11:06 AM PDT
by
Natufian
(t)
To: Ghost of SVR4
Im pretty sure I am in a one dimensional universe
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:12:06 AM PDT
by
woofie
To: Natufian
Ummm..... they’ve been changing the settings for women for about the past 20 years....
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:12:37 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: Ghost of SVR4; Ellendra
I’m surprised atheists have not protested the use of government money to fund a study proving the existence of a creator or creators. That is, the existence of a hologram at least implies the theory of creation. Or maybe my simple mind is jumping to conclusions.
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:13:08 AM PDT
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: woofie
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:13:30 AM PDT
by
DManA
(in)
To: Ghost of SVR4
Just theories of course, but fun to contemplate.
True enough.
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:14:16 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
To: knittnmom
Theoretical Physicist Sheldon Cooper once said he was sure we weren’t living in the matrix because if we were the food would taste better....
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:15:49 AM PDT
by
kjam22
(my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
To: bigbob
I knew I should’ve took the blue pill.
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:16:04 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(You can't fix stupid but you can vote them out.)
To: Ghost of SVR4
space and time are created from tiny bits of information that vary %%
Tiny bubbles
In the Brane…
Make me keep happy,
Make me stay sane...
%%
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:16:17 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Humpday BUMPty)
To: Ghost of SVR4
2D or not 2D, that is the question.
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:18:07 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Ghost of SVR4
As far as I can understand, at least two practical uses for this hypothesis, if proven, are to engineer a Tardis and a Warp Drive.
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:27:28 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Ghost of SVR4
"Say what?"
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posted on
08/27/2014 7:29:42 AM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Conservatism is the political disposition of grown-ups.)
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