Posted on 05/06/2021 6:00:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Prior to his death on March 14, 2018, the English theoretical physicist created a theory that changed the way we think about the universe. Working with Belgian professor, Thomas Hertog, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Hawking theorised that our three-dimensional reality is an illusion.
Put simply, Professors Hawking and Hertog speculated that all information in the universe is stored on a flat 2D surface and our so-called “solid” world around us is then projected from that information.
Back in 2018, Professor Hertog said: “It's a very precise mathematical notion of holography that has come out of string theory in the last few years, which is not fully understood but is mind-boggling and changes the scene completely.
“The key point is that we're not projecting out a spatial dimension. We are projecting out the dimension of time from 'before' the Big Bang.”
Published a month after his death in the Journal of High Energy Physics, the theory is compatible with eternal inflation and Einstein’s theory of General Relativity.
Defining what makes a hologram, Professor Hertog explained that it can be viewed as a kind of dimensional change.
Professor Hertog added: “It's a theory that envisages a beginning to the universe where time is not present but our notion of time crystallises.
“And it's saying that time is fundamentally coming out of some other state for which we have no words.
“Some very abstract timeless state - that's the best we can do.”
Professor Hawking was a leading expert on string theory and quantum physics who helped piece together the ‘multiverse theory’ in which many worlds exist in parallel but each with its own evolution.
Despite adding great insight to the theory, Hawking was sceptical, once commenting in 2017 that he had “never been a fan of the multiverse”.
Professor Hertog said that before his friend’s death, Professor Hawking felt holography might offer a better understanding of the multiverse theory.
Professor Hawking said: “We are not down to a single, unique universe, but our findings imply a significant reduction of the multiverse, to a much smaller range of possible universes.”
His final published theory is not the first to imagine the universe as a form of pseudo-existence as theories have arisen over the last few decades indicating that humanity is living in a ‘Matrix-like’ simulation.
Positive proof that he was just plain and simply full of shit.
I thought his Theory was going to be that All brontosauruses are thin at one end; much, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.
“…Defining what makes a hologram, Professor Hertog explained that it can be viewed as a kind of dimensional change.
Professor Hertog added: “It’s a theory that envisages a beginning to the universe where time is not present but our notion of time crystallises.
“And it’s saying that time is fundamentally coming out of some other state for which we have no words.
“Some very abstract timeless state - that’s the best we can do.”…”
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“In the beginning was the word…”
> I don’t know what the tortoise is standing on. Needs a little more work. <
I think you should apply for a federal grant to study that question. Just be sure to mention the threat of Climate Change somewhere in your grant application.
As in: If we don’t drastically cut back our carbon dioxide emissions, the tortoise will surely die and fall off whatever he is standing on.
Can’t remember who said it but the problem with those who don’t believe in God is not that they will believe nothing but that they will believe anything.
Pffft.
that’s the problems with physics today. many stupid impactable unproveable theory’s abound that have absolutely no meaning.
Stop! look around! does it make sense! If it means that you have to change every known observational based theory it is probably wrong. It gives a better description of the universe and can be replicated then it has a chance of being right. The stuff that some are coming up with makes it difficult to have any hope for the future of science. IMO
One day out of the blue I started thinking about someone I had known in childhood. He was one of my dads friends. I read later he died that day in the obituaries. My brother told me the very same thing happened to my dad. He was thinking real hard about the same guy on the day of his death. I can’t explain that.
Have Bill Gates pay it. Sin tax for depressing salaries in an entire industry as he lied to Congress and said that there weren’t people here who could do the work and he pocketed the savings.
see post 18
Chuck Missler has a good grasp of this.
The idea that we live in a hologram may sound strange, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard ‘t Hooft suggested that a holographic principle might apply to the universe as a whole.
www.khouse.org/articles/2009/839/&ved=2ahUKEwiOnJiBt7bwAhWELc0KHexdAVUQFjAOegQIFBAC&usg=AOvVaw0r6i8EslGbM5MIzTEPSHcK&cshid=1620351679483
We are in a locker....
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/EnviousIdealisticBufeo-mobile.mp4
Hawking argued that the universe as we perceive it is a mere shadow of the true reality that is perfect and eternal.
Sounds like a vision that is quite compatible with the Good Book.
Knew, not need.
You bet and you can also bet that he is no longer an atheist ...
Yes!
“When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton
So if the universe is only 2 dimensional where are the edges?
I wonder what/which drugs he was under the influence of, ‘prior to his death on March 14, 2018’.
I didn’t Know
He was Sick,
I’d have sent a Card!
I’ve heard that magic mushrooms can do that...
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