Our world may be a giant hologram

[nebula]

Our world may be a giant hologram

* 15 January 2009 by Marcus Chown

* Magazine issue 2691.

DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. . . .

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... [Craig] Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, 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.

The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

Read about it here

[Matthitjah]

Can anyone say, "The Matrix!"

Or was it "The Meatrix!"

http://www.themeatrix1.com/

http://www.themeatrix2.com/

"Hello Mr. Hamderson."

[MorningGlory]

Now wait just a cotton-pickin' minute! Is he saying that we are all just holograms? Then who are we being holograms to? What's the point of being a hologram if there's no audience? Who made the platform for us? Is this based on science or what he drank for lunch? What a load of fertilizer!

[nebula]

You need to read the article.

I actually think the proposition makes a lot of sense from a theological standpoint.

My dad came theorized this after watching The Matrix - the "real world" is what we call the spiritual realm and this world is "the illusion."

[arrowfromgod]

i do believe that all we phisicaly see here in this plane of existence is temporary ,,, like that one science dude said that we are just a buncha molecuils bouncing around and we see what the observer wants us to see ,,, to me the observer is god and i can kinda relate to what he is saying about the hologram thing ,,, ya can say this world will fade away or be destoyed or what ever ,,, ill agree with that because the bible says it will ,,,and i will entertain what science has to say for ya never know what could be wrong or right if you dont prove the spirit in others ,,, keeping with an open mind yet grounded in the word this hologram thing ultimatly says there is a god ,,, with that part i do agree ,,, and i agree that god projects (creates all things) and if god was to stop thinking about anything it would not exist ... god thinks it therefor it does exist ... i live in gods creation ,,, if god stopped thinking of me it would be like erasing me off the face of his creation (thank you jesus for remembering me) ,,, now weather god does this with a hologram or not i cant say ,,, but ill keep it in mind so when i get to the real place im gonna spend eternity at i can ask god about this ,,, im sure he will explain it to us fully

love in christ arrow from god (i just cant see my lord setting up a projector )

[Matthitjah]

Is this a case of life imitating art or art imitating life?

Strangely, I do understand the thought process here.

Reality is the Spiritual realm.

Peace,

Dave

[traveller]

So if a hand is passed between the source and us, we'll jsut blink out?

I too feel like the spiritual is more real than the physical.

[Matthitjah]

So if a hand is passed between the source and us, we'll jsut blink out?

I too feel like the spiritual is more real than the physical.

Where'd Trav go?

Oh' there she is, she came back. I thought she got raptured.

I have a question, "If a tree falls in the woods and nobody's around to hear it does it still make a sound or is the sound only heard in the Spiritual realm?"

[MorningGlory]

You need to read the article.

I actually think the proposition makes a lot of sense from a theological standpoint.

My dad came theorized this after watching The Matrix - the "real world" is what we call the spiritual realm and this world is "the illusion."

I did read the article. While it's an interesting idea....I still think it's a load of fertilizer. Now if they PROVE their theory....I'll change my mind. Truthfully....if what they say is true, no one but God could make it so.

[nebula]

How does one prove anything?

But what is your reason for flat out rejecting the idea? Do you know a fair amount about quantum theory and string theory and subatomic theory such that you can make this flat-out assessment? Or do you have solid evidence that the standard light-wave theories are unquestionable?

I mean, do you have your mind wrapped around particle physics enough to actually understand all that they were saying?