I would love to find out the universe is on a “holodeck”...
“Computer, Arch”
[presses several buttons] (beep beep beep)
Computer: “Liberals and Islamists deleted”
All physical reality is just vibration like sound.
Sounds oddly familiar.
There is reason to believe the Universe could have properties similar to a hologram. This money is well spent, especially compared to other government expenditures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence
Something is amiss. We’re part of the universe, so presumably we ourselves would be an illusion. An illusion for whom, or what?
Rewrite the last sentence: if they end up showing that the universe is a 2-D illusion it will pretty much confirm the existance of a Supreme Being/Creator who built it.
Getting to watch the reaction by Libs and Atheists to the existance of God being proven on a government grant will be worth EVERY penny of taxpayer’s dollars spent.
At least IMHO.
4D yes
Money well spent ;-) (compared to lots of other crap)
Scientific American had a feature article on that.
That is not science. By publishing that article, SA has left the field of science and joined the world of pop fluff.
The thesis of the article is based on NOTHING at all. It doesn’t even rise to the level of conjecture.
Like asking if we are really just part of some other-worldly creatures dream, and when it wakes up we will disappear.
Great science-fiction, but not science.
BTW, the “big bang” is not a sufficient explanation for the origin of the universe. Go to work on that, scientists.
wait....wouldn’t the test, itself, be a hologram? Can we save $$$ and just say, ‘maybe’?
Larry: Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being.........This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be--
Jennings: Could be one little tiny universe.
Larry: Could I buy some pot from you?
What is the nature of the universe? Why does it exist? When matter and energy are shown to be nothing more than different examples of Universe Information, and black holes have negative entropy such that a mixture of hot gasses with maximum entropy will still have a lessened entropy when projected against holographic 5-dimensional strings.
No, because a 4-dimensional black hole will have surface event-horizon fluctuations that represent the lost information of the incoming particle. This preserves the unitary preservation of information, but seems to indicate a quantum gravity at higher dimensions, and a gravity collapse at lower dimensions.
This is precisely the kind of basic physics research that the federal government should fund in that it aims at fundamental scientific knowledge with no apparent commercial application that might otherwise provide funding. And, it must be noted, whether the universe is holographic in nature is distinct from holograms, the two things being no more closely related than are lightning and lightning bug.
How and where does one apply for public research funding? I have a thesis that what we call “the universe” is actually the insides of a zit on the ass of a big ....oh, wait....I’m not sharing my thesis before I get funding. Never mind.
So, the “illusion,” or hologram is potentially about to discover for itself that it does not really exist?
Think about that.
We can come to some conclusions about the universe that surrounds us, and some of the local, and perhaps a few of the universal laws that govern it. But on the whole, we have an extremely fallible and minute understanding of what has gone into the creation of what we see around us.
As time goes on, and through advancing technologies, we continually discover how immense what surrounds us truly is...and that just punctuates how much we truly do not know.
But the Creator, our Father in Heaven does know, and the more we discover, and the incredible order and sophistication of it, the more it also punctuates that point.
The physical universe or hologram is a projection of the collective ego. It is perceived but is not real.
I’m thrilled to learn I’m helping to fund this.