Science that makes your head hurt - Vol 1.

[haybierman]

Our world may be a giant hologram

According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in.

If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan...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."

Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

Theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true.


Full article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/...html?full=true

[TheTGB]

Imteresting but wouldn't the grains be atoms and molecules? Eh I'd like to see more reasoning through tests nonetheless.

[OnePimpTiger]

I'd rather they focus on finding a way to beam me up...I've been trying with ol' Jim, but "beam me up" takes on a whole different meaning that way.

[haybierman]

Imteresting but wouldn't the grains be atoms and molecules? Eh I'd like to see more reasoning through tests nonetheless.

Well, from what I understand of the space-time continuum, these guys are talking about zooming in on particles traveling at near the speed of light - most of which are subatomic and far smaller than any atom or molecule.. we're talking quarks, quasars, and all that other quantum physics hoobadeejoo that is way above my pay grade.

But again, the article is all a theory... nonetheless I found it interesting.

[TheTGB]

The concept itself is interesting, if only I understood physics might it make more sense!

[chrisjacobs7]

The concept is very interesting, but I highly doubt it's the truth.

[Crater_Satori]

Interesting stuff for sure...I like how they briefly mentioned String Theory cause as I was reading this that is exactly what I was thinking about...very neat theory that we will almost undoubtedly never be able to prove.