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Our world may be a giant hologram
New Scientist ^
| January 15th, 2009
| Marcus Chown
Posted on 01/18/2009 4:47:55 PM PST by Crimson Elephant
DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.
For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.
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TOPICS: Germany; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aquarianconspiracy; callingartbell; cosmology; diffractionscale; faithandphilosophy; fermilab; hologram; holographicblurring; holographicprinciple; holographicuniverse; informationflux; interferometer; interferometry; karlpibram; karlpribram; marilynferguson; neildegrassetyson; planck; science; stringtheory; universe; wavelengthcarrier
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To: Crimson Elephant
Terrific book: The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot. Worth the read.
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01/18/2009 6:24:09 PM PST
by
Twotone
To: wally_bert
"Arnold rimmer effect?"
Smeging Hell! Holly ... is that true?
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01/18/2009 6:26:11 PM PST
by
CapnJack
To: Crimson Elephant
Has anyone contacted albore about this for additional scientific support?
To: Crimson Elephant
If the universe is a hologram why do blind people not know that nothing else is there?
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posted on
01/18/2009 6:32:35 PM PST
by
ThomasThomas
( Never mind.........it may go both ways...)
To: Tarpon
“So who or what is running the hologram generator?”
God, of course.
The holographic universe theory seems very good to me.
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01/18/2009 6:39:27 PM PST
by
devere
To: Crimson Elephant
This actually makes a lot of sense. After watching the Holodeck scenes on the original Star Trek, I often wondered if our multidimensional representation of reality is represented as two dimensions in our memory. Then, I got to wonder, "What if everything is like that?"
Fascinating...as Spock would say.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:05:59 PM PST
by
Polarik
("A forgery created to prove a claim repudiates that claim")
To: Crimson Elephant
They’re not talking about a literal hologram but about everything we experience as three dimensions in the middle of the universe actually being the way we perceive two dimensional effects that really occur only on the outer bubble of the expanding universe. Interesting theory that could also explain God’s place in and impact on the universe if one is inclined to look at things that way.
To: woofie
>>Can I quit dieting?
maybe your hologram is just out of whack and you are really buff
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:23:58 PM PST
by
Taffini
(Mr. Pippin and Mr. Waffles do not approve)
To: CapnJack
Maybe in some alternate universe I am the equivalent of Ace Rimmer.
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:33:05 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair! Star Wreck In The Pirkinning......)
To: SoftwareEngineer
There are two ways to look at this. One is that our physical Universe is as it seems it is. I consider this to be the equivalent of Newtonian Physics I'm reminded of that saying by Feynman, that those who think quantum mechanics makes sense don't really understand it (or something like that).
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posted on
01/18/2009 7:55:52 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Crimson Elephant
... the physics inside a hypothetical universe with five dimensions and shaped like a Pringle is the same as the physics taking place on the four-dimensional boundary.Mmmmmm ... Pringles.
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01/18/2009 9:09:04 PM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: Crimson Elephant
I don’t know about the universe being a hologram, but I’ve recently described Obama as a hologram.
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posted on
01/19/2009 7:48:15 AM PST
by
supremedoctrine
("One was drawing funny faces, but his own was grave"--Richard Hughes, A High Wind in Jamaica)
To: Question_Assumptions
Yes, I thought it was rather obvious that the word “hologram” was simply a device to explain the concept, rather than it being a hologram in the way it is presented on TV. The concept of the Holographic Universe really isn’t the same as someone projecting a “hologram” as we have come to visualize it.
I see several on the thread “get it” and others don’t. But admittedly it is a concept that you have to really be interested in to fully grasp...and even then it takes a few thought experiments.
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03/18/2014 8:35:28 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Crimson Elephant
"Can I buy some pot from you?"
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03/18/2014 8:36:21 PM PDT
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dfwgator
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