November 11, 2008
Holographic Universe
Do we live inside a hologram?
Spacetime would be a plane of waves, traveling at the speed of light. The fundamental fuzziness of the waves, on the order of the Planck length and time, could be amplified in large systems such as gravitational-wave detectors. The third spatial dimension of the macroscopic world would be encoded in information contained in the two-dimensional waves. “It’s as if, in the real world, we are living inside a hologram,” says Hogan. “The illusion is almost perfect. You really need a machine like GEO600 to see it.”
(thanks, Lynn)
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No, we live in a 4 Corner Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube.
You, Snotbrains, will know hell for ignoring Time Cube. I think this is the creepiest thing I have ever seen on the internet.
Ok ok, I’m just tired.
Mike?
Did you read all that? If you did, you must need a cocktail.
Lucy?
I don’t think you’re tired. Yes, I agree. The creepiest thing I’ve ever seen, though I haven’t seen all the internet. I’ve seen enough to know I’ve seen too much.
Deron?
I often wondered if the premise of “The Matrix” was very far off the “real” beam.
Yeah, the ever enlarging text was quite a throwback.
“You really need a machine like GEO600 to see it.”
Not true: mescaline will suffice.
‘least, always has before.
First glance. Self to self: “Say, did I post that comment this morning and forget it already?” Wait. No. That’s not me. Okay.