Stephen Hawking's final theory published after death suggests universe is a hologram

Express (U.K.) ^ | Wed, May 5, 2021 | Oliver Trapnell

[Fai Mao]

In which case nothing matters.

[Aria]

Yeah...well probably you know more about magic mushrooms than I do since I know zero about them.

[Aria]

Hmmm

There is so much we don’t know!

[simpson96]

Ah, the cushy life of a “great thinker”.

[Da Coyote]

Only if the universe is closed.
Not sure it is, since the rate of expansion appears to be increasing.

[xp38]

Might have been when he made a cameo on Star Trek TNG. You know holodeck and all.

[Da Coyote]

“I lean toward a hemisphere supported by two giant elephants standing on a humongous tortoise. I don’t know what the tortoise is standing on. Needs a little more work.”

It’s four elephants on a tortoise. (Although there was one theory about a fifth elephant.)

Terry Prichard deserves the prize.

[DannyTN]

Questions:

1. What difference would it make?
2. Who built the hologram?
3. Somewhere a reality must exist that has the technology to build both an extremely powerful computer and a device to project the hologram.
4. If we are still limited by the laws of physics as we perceive them, then does it matter that' it's a hologram?
5. Is the cat alive or dead in the hologram?
6. What if only Steven Hawking was a hologram and the rest of us are real?
7. Those dang CCP's let a dang holographic nightmare virus loose in our hologram.
8. If you are evil in a hologram, shouldn't you expect to reap a horribly holographic punishment?
9. If you love in a hologram is it any less meaningful?
10. Who's watching the hologram?
11. Can we find the projector?
12. Can we find the computer?
13. Can we matrix it?
14. What color are the pills?

[PGalt]

was he vaxxed for vexed?

[Dave Wright]

The holographic universe theory that Hawking speculated is based on the string theory duality that was posited by Juan Maldacena known as AdSS/CFT. AdSS stands for anti de Sitter space named after the mathematician Willem de Sitter. The curvature of AdSS is negative like a Pringle chip unlike the universe we live in which has positive curvature.

Its an interesting mathematical tool used to bridge string theory calculations in eleven dimensions with quantum field theory calculations that include gravity but at this point it doesn’t describe the universe we live in.

[Ken H]

“Were are the turtles?”

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In the cosmic soup.

[Wuli]

I think it was Hawkings who was a hologram. HE wasn’t real, just something a team of computer geeks with too much time on their hands produced; no chairs left in the string theory section.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I could buy Stephen Hawking being a hologram.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The turtle moves.

[cpdiii]

1. ????
2. Nothing before the Big Bang. Time did not exist as there was nothing. It was eternity with out time and thus no measure of time.
3. Big Bang happened and thus the universe

Refer back to step 1. God is eternal and that concept we do not understand nor does any physicist, even Stephen Hawking. My theory is as good as Mr. Hawking’s theory.

[miserare]

Hah!

...and Hawkings is now a pimple on the ass of the hologram
in the hole in the bottom of the sea.

[Flaming Conservative]

LOL. Not I; I’ve never even gotten NEAR an illicit drug. Nor now, when some are legal.

[Fai Mao]

By The Good Book, in this case, you mean Plato’s Dialogs? That is where the idea comes from, not the Bible. But most Protestant and Orthodox Christians think in a Platonic framework. RC follow Aristotle.

[Fido969]

This seems to be mental masturbation.

Only kind he could do. Well, that and with his nurse.

[miserare]

“There are more things, Horatio, in heaven and in earth

Than are thought of in your philosophy.”

~~Hamlet