Our world may be a giant hologram

[bignateyk]

http://www.newscientist.com/ar...-a-giant-hologram.html

Long read, but pretty interesting. Basically they might have accidentally discovered that our universe is a huge 2-D surface shaped like a sphere, and we are all just holograms.

 

[JohnCU]

damn i expected this to be an arcadio thread

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
damn i expected this to be an arcadio thread

LOL. That's the first thing I looked for.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Whoever made that page needs to learn to set margins. It's driving me nuts trying to read it.

Edit: What a ridiculous concept :roll:

 

[SsupernovaE]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX

Originally posted by: JohnCU
damn i expected this to be an arcadio thread

LOL. That's the first thing I looked for.

But he didn't say 'ologram.

 

[scott916]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Whoever made that page needs to learn to set margins. It's driving me nuts trying to read it.

Edit: What a ridiculous concept :roll:

The forefront of science is always looked upon as ridiculous, all the way back to discovering we're in a heliocentric galaxy. At this point, we know so little that it doesn't seem THAT far-fetched.

 

[Jeff7]

No one - including Hogan - is yet claiming that GEO600 has found evidence that we live in a holographic universe. It is far too soon to say. "There could still be a mundane source of the noise," Hogan admits.

😕


This seems like an interesting idea though; I imagine though that a fair amount of detail gets lost in the translation from "Advanced theoretical physicist-speak" to "3-page magazine article for the general public."

 

[scott916]

Hopefully Discover or Scientific American will have an article, they're usually much more in depth.

 

[bignateyk]

Originally posted by: scott916

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Whoever made that page needs to learn to set margins. It's driving me nuts trying to read it.

Edit: What a ridiculous concept :roll:

The forefront of science is always looked upon as ridiculous, all the way back to discovering we're in a heliocentric galaxy. At this point, we know so little that it doesn't seem THAT far-fetched.

Random person: "Guys, I think the world might actually be round."

Crowd: "What a ridiculous concept"

Not saying this is true.. most theories like this don't pan out, but it's hard to call anything pertaining to the physics of our universe a "ridiculous concept" when we know so little about it.

 

[scott916]

Originally posted by: bignateyk

Originally posted by: scott916

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Whoever made that page needs to learn to set margins. It's driving me nuts trying to read it.

Edit: What a ridiculous concept :roll:

The forefront of science is always looked upon as ridiculous, all the way back to discovering we're in a heliocentric galaxy. At this point, we know so little that it doesn't seem THAT far-fetched.

Random person: "Guys, I think the world might actually be round."

Crowd: "What a ridiculous concept"

Not saying this is true.. most theories like this don't pan out, but it's hard to call anything pertaining to the physics of our universe a "ridiculous concept" when we know so little about it.

Exactly.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
damn i expected this to be an arcadio thread

....so you're disappointed?

 

[njdevilsfan87]

I just love reading these kinds of articles. 🙂

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: zinfamous

Originally posted by: JohnCU
damn i expected this to be an arcadio thread

....so you're disappointed?

somewhat 😀

 

[SSSnail]

Quick, someone start a religion base around these premises.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

This certainly explains why people are so shallow.

 

[EGGO]

I definitely remember reading something about this back in 2003 in a quantum physics magazine in Barnes and Noble (pretty sure it was a quantum physics magazine).

 

[Omegachi]

interesting...

 

[mortong]

Originally posted by: SSSnail
Quick, someone start a religion base around these premises.

Done

Plato's projection on a sheet also comes to mind...

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Edit: What a ridiculous concept :roll:

Not ridiculous at all. It was an awesome article. Nobody is hypothesizing that we're a figment of someone's imagination, or we're a simulation on a holodeck. It all has to do with mathematics and physics and the composition of the universe, and how best to understand it. If you took the time to read the entire article, you'll see they're hypothesizing that the universe in whole is attached in a two dimension way, and what we perceive in many more dimensions is how the smallest units of that 2 dimension interact with each other.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Edit: What a ridiculous concept :roll:

Not ridiculous at all. It was an awesome article. Nobody is hypothesizing that we're a figment of someone's imagination, or we're a simulation on a holodeck. It all has to do with mathematics and physics and the composition of the universe, and how best to understand it. If you took the time to read the entire article, you'll see they're hypothesizing that the universe in whole is attached in a two dimension way, and what we perceive in many more dimensions is how the smallest units of that 2 dimension interact with each other.

I'll eat my words if I'm ever proved wrong, but I sincerely doubt it. I read the article with an open mind, but it's still a very silly concept. I am well aware that this is how science progresses but at the moment this idea, in my opinion, is completely unfounded and baseless. If anyone else is able to reproduce what they are seeing and come to the same conclusions then I'll start to give it some credibility.

Edit: I'll say this though. It was interesting to think about.

 

[cirrhosis]

I expected this to be on Pravda or something. It belongs with the Big Book of David Icke theories.

What makes more sense to me and seems logical is the existence of Branes.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Edit: What a ridiculous concept :roll:

Not ridiculous at all. It was an awesome article. Nobody is hypothesizing that we're a figment of someone's imagination, or we're a simulation on a holodeck. It all has to do with mathematics and physics and the composition of the universe, and how best to understand it. If you took the time to read the entire article, you'll see they're hypothesizing that the universe in whole is attached in a two dimension way, and what we perceive in many more dimensions is how the smallest units of that 2 dimension interact with each other.

Edit: I'll say this though. It was interesting to think about.

Was it interesting to think about before or after you complained about the margins and called the concept ridiculous? Open mind my ass, no more open than 95% of ATOT who think they have all the answers.

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
Edit: What a ridiculous concept :roll:

Not ridiculous at all. It was an awesome article. Nobody is hypothesizing that we're a figment of someone's imagination, or we're a simulation on a holodeck. It all has to do with mathematics and physics and the composition of the universe, and how best to understand it. If you took the time to read the entire article, you'll see they're hypothesizing that the universe in whole is attached in a two dimension way, and what we perceive in many more dimensions is how the smallest units of that 2 dimension interact with each other.

Edit: I'll say this though. It was interesting to think about.

Was it interesting to think about before or after you complained about the margins and called the concept ridiculous? Open mind my ass, no more open than 95% of ATOT who think they have all the answers.

You are entitled to your opinion. That's fine.

I read it with an open mind and I still think it is interesting to think about, but that doesn't mean I also don't find it to be ridiculous. I think light sabers are interesting to think about and also find that concept to be ridiculous.

P.S. I don't think I have all the answers. I said it was my opinion.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
I read it with an open mind and I still think it is interesting to think about, but that doesn't mean I also don't find it to be ridiculous.

What is your opinion on superstring theory?

 

[MrDudeMan]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: MrDudeMan
I read it with an open mind and I still think it is interesting to think about, but that doesn't mean I also don't find it to be ridiculous.

What is your opinion on superstring theory?

If you'd like to take this to PMs then by all means, but the trolling in this thread is already getting annoying when I even stated I thought it was interesting and that it's only my opinion.

I didn't expect to get into a debate about this so I left out any supporting detail in my OP in this thread.