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Fermilab will measure smallest details of space time and test if the universe is a hologram in 2011
Next Big Future ^ | October 27, 2010 | Next Big Future

Posted on 10/26/2010 7:41:26 AM PDT by Arec Barrwin

If you "lived inside" a hologram, you could tell by measuring the blurring. Fermilab is building a interferometer to test space time for holographic blurring.

Possible consequence of holography

Hypothesis: observable correlations are encoded on light sheets and limited by information capacity of a Planck wavelength carrier (“Planck information flux” limit)

Predicts uncertainty in position at Planck diffraction scale

(Excerpt) Read more at nextbigfuture.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aquarianconspiracy; diffractionscale; faithandphilosophy; fermilab; hologram; holographicblurring; holographicprinciple; holographicuniverse; informationflux; interferometer; interferometry; karlpibram; karlpribram; marilynferguson; neildegrassetyson; planck; stringtheory; universe; wavelengthcarrier
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To: UCANSEE2
If they're searching for holographic noise, OK.

But if the whole exercise is to discover if the universe is a hologram, well, I think these scientists are succumbing to an all-too-common tendency these days to overreach, injecting far too much imagination into their hypotheses.

21 posted on 10/26/2010 8:16:34 AM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: UCANSEE2

How Poetic.


22 posted on 10/26/2010 8:18:41 AM PDT by Waverunner (")
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To: UCANSEE2

You mean a universe without photons? Well, since we’re making this up as we go here, I think that a photonless universe would still have mass. The question is does a baryonic universe require photons, and I think it might be OK, but Genesis suggests otherwise (no light, no anything).

Certainly you could not observe much in a universe without photons.


23 posted on 10/26/2010 8:19:09 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: DManA
A lot of scientists are disturbed by the fraction of research dollars being consumed by these mega-experiments too.

Really? They should see what the 'climate' scientists are spending 'research' (our tax money) dollars on.

24 posted on 10/26/2010 8:19:33 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: UCANSEE2

This was a puzzler. After a pause, Alice began, ‘Well! They were BOTH very unpleasant characters—’ Here she checked herself in some alarm, at hearing something that sounded to her like the puffing of a large steam-engine in the wood near them, though she feared it was more likely to be a wild beast. ‘Are there any lions or tigers about here?’ she asked timidly.

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‘He’s dreaming now,’ said Tweedledee: ‘and what do you think he’s dreaming about?’

Alice said ‘Nobody can guess that.’

‘Why, about YOU!’ Tweedledee exclaimed, clapping his hands triumphantly. ‘And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you’d be?’

‘Where I am now, of course,’ said Alice.

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‘I shouldn’t!’ Alice exclaimed indignantly. ‘Besides, if I’M only a sort of thing in his dream, what are YOU, I should like to know?’

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From “Through the Looking-glass”, Lewis Carroll


25 posted on 10/26/2010 8:20:41 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ozark hilljilly

>>Red pill or blue pill?<<

I was in a prison ministry band and memorized that routine. During a break in our “show” I put on sunglasses and a long black coat and went through the entire monologue, with a couple of changes directly toward Christianity at the end.

They can take the “red” pill, become a Christian, and discover the “Real world” or take the blue pill and wake up tomorrow believing, well, “whatever they want to believe”.

Or, as Solomon put it in Ecclesiasties,

Ecclesiastes 9:9
Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun— all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun.

He is speaking of the life without God, of course.


26 posted on 10/26/2010 8:21:32 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: brytlea

I get paid to do lots of different things, and currently my rent is paid by being a scientist, so I get to sound like one.

Besides, cosmology is fun!


27 posted on 10/26/2010 8:22:50 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: DBrow
Certainly you could not observe much in a universe without photons.

Might be a little nippy to.

28 posted on 10/26/2010 8:32:20 AM PDT by The Cajun
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To: achilles2000
The guy who said this: “I am the way, the truth, and the light.”

Amen to that!

Reminds me of a sci-fi short story I read once where scientists all over the universe were trying to figure out if entropy could be reversed. (I won't attempt to define it, except to say that in this context, entropy is the tendency of the universe to become more and more disorganized, thermodynamically over time.)

So, they linked more and more computers together, which over time - and long after mankind itself had died out - finally came up with the answer, the computer screen on one of the machines spitting out the line, "Let there be light."

29 posted on 10/26/2010 8:36:17 AM PDT by Quality_Not_Quantity (A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth. (J.I. Packer)
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To: RobRoy
I seriously wonder if the “root” force that is holding it all together is a little thing called God’s will.

LAW OF ATTRACTION.

Sounds very 'scientific', doesn't it? It is. It is what causes the coagulation. It is what causes the formation and growth of planets and stars. It is what causes the atoms to cling to one another and form 'matter'.

It is also religious. God is Love. Love is attraction. God's will is LOVE. God's will is attraction. By this 'ATTRACTION' is the Universe made possible.

30 posted on 10/26/2010 8:38:31 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: Bigh4u2
Ok. So then WHO built the projector?

General Electric.

31 posted on 10/26/2010 8:39:50 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: TheThinker; DBrow
But if the whole exercise is to discover if the universe is a hologram,

DBrow already mentioned in an earlier post that one needs to FULLY READ the article to get the real details. The TITLE is very misleading.

Here is what DBrow said:

"They don’t mean an actual hologram. They mean a universe bounded by Planck-scale wave interferences. The article makes it sound like the universe is a human-type film hologram read with a laser in a lab, but read carefully. "

32 posted on 10/26/2010 8:47:15 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: DBrow

Yeah, it’s always fun until someone gets hurt! ;)


33 posted on 10/26/2010 8:47:37 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: DBrow

I cot completely lost when someone was explaining string theory and it dawned on me that we were just energy anyway. Suddenly anything and nothing seemed equally likely. Being rather math challenged is really a very BIG disability!


34 posted on 10/26/2010 8:50:15 AM PDT by brytlea (Jesus loves me, this I know.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Yeah, but what else are you gonna do with a $$???? billion , humongous, atom-smasher?

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see that this new interferometer is connected to the atom smasher.

35 posted on 10/26/2010 8:57:23 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average.)
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To: TheThinker
But if the whole exercise is to discover if the universe is a hologram,

It may be that all the appearance of 'physical' matter is a manifestation of the interference pattern between waveforms of various energy sources, and the time/space continuum.

I think that is really what the reference to holograms is about.

36 posted on 10/26/2010 9:00:10 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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To: RobRoy
the Godless scientists will eventually come to realize that willfull disobedience has a 'price'...

on the human level, anything that these asshat try to 'measure' is a joke w/o the 'provable' standard...so there is no check/balance to their theories or experiments...just so much scientific masterbation at the taxpayer expense...

37 posted on 10/26/2010 9:01:31 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: DManA
A lot of scientists are disturbed by the fraction of research dollars being consumed by these mega-experiments too.

This new interferometer is much smaller and more precise than other recent interferometers used to measure gravity waves. It seems like it's an advance in cost efficiency.

38 posted on 10/26/2010 9:05:19 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average.)
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To: Arec Barrwin
Planck wavelength carrier

So if it's true, then we are all just "walking the Planck"?

39 posted on 10/26/2010 9:21:27 AM PDT by techcor (I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

The story was “THE LAST QUESTION” by ISAAC ASIMOV.

Here is a link to the complete story.

http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html


40 posted on 10/26/2010 9:34:09 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (lame and ill-informed post)
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