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

[UCANSEE2]

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

Well, it might be a good way to get a blurry picture.

[zeugma]

Besides, cosmology is fun!

You do makeup?

Zeugma ducks and runs...

[DBrow]

I have a cosmology license good in three counties!

[DBrow]

I usually stop dissecting the universe at hadrons and leptons. Everything you touch or see is the result of leptons (and photons), everything that has weight is hadrons.

Once you go beyond that into quarks, strings, Planck vortex instabilities...then you start to go way beyond what you can see and touch, you need county-sized accelerators to collect the data and try to make sense of it.

[thulldud]

Ok. So then WHO built the projector?

General Electric.

In China.

[Colinsky]

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.

In the beginning there was nothing.
And God said, "Let there be light."
And there still was nothing, but now you could see it.

[DBrow]

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Looks like baryonic matter first (hadrons and leptons), then photons. So if you took photons away now, you’d still have a place to observe from and eyeballs to observe with, but you’d be unable to see anything. I was mistaken in my earlier post, I did not look up The First Book of Moses to check. You can have “stuff” with no light, the universe has been there before.

[eddie willers]

They don’t mean an actual hologram. They mean a universe bounded by Planck-scale wave interferences.

Thanks for the clarification.

[brytlea]

I like to listen to people talk about that stuff, but me actually understanding it is like my dog actually understanding what my computer does. ;)

[brytlea]

Does that mean you can color my hair? ;)

[DBrow]

Sure. But in a quantum physics way. Today my colors are “strange” and “up”!

I don’t do braids, that’s string theory.

Jokes like this quark me up, I tell ya.

[brytlea]

LOL love geeky humor, when I get it! ;) I always liked hanging out with the smart guys, hoped it would rub off. It didn’t. Drat!

[SunkenCiv]

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