Topic: There Is Growing Evidence that Our Universe Is a Giant Hologram (Read 1626 times)

Sorry about the bad news, everyone...

http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/1476h/1476%20%28Wolpert%29.pdf

There can never be a complete theory of everything
At least not one that's expressed in a conventional way, such as being written down on paper, whether using obscure symbols or ordinary prose. As far as I could gather (before I had to stop reading due to massive brain haemorrhaging), they expanded upon Gödel's incompleteness theorem to make it more obviously applicable for the actual universe, not just arithmetic.




He's right though. Saying big words like "hologram" repeatedly does not impress anybody. Anyone who knows a little about holograms will recall that they require things like lasers which operate outside the realm of the projection itself. There's an unexplained "chicken and egg" problem with a universe that mysteriously projects itself into existence. I guess one reason why people (especially in the US) liked the Big Bang theory was because a) it got around that problem, and b) it implied that 'God' simply had a really big gun.

Maybe one way to get around the "no theory of everything" problem is that the universe itself is an instantaneous expression of a theory of everything. This is similar to some of the "simulated universe" talk where people realise that simulation cannot happen faster than the real thing, so for all intents and purposes, it is the real thing.

Also, a serious problem with "atheist" theories for the universe is that they usually gloss over the philosophical problems about where the idea of god comes from, or, in fact, where any ideas come from. Even with plain old quantum physics -- what causes random things to be random? And how do we know they're random?

God ?! We clearly watch different videos on youtube

Re: There Is Growing Evidence that Our Universe Is a Giant Hologram?

LOL, what are people in this universe then? Part of a hologram? How part of a hologram can have mind, spirit or soul? And what is god then? Explain things.

If a friend told you that we were all living in a giant hologram, you’d probably tell him to lay off the kush. But incredibly, physicists across the world are thinking the same thing: That what we perceive to be a three-dimensional universe might just be the image of a two-dimensional one, projected across a massive cosmic horizon.

Yes, it sounds more than a little insane. The 3D nature of our world is as fundamental to our sense of reality as the fact that time runs forward. And yet some researchers believe that contradictions between Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum mechanics might be reconciled if every three-dimensional object we know and cherish is a projection of tiny, subatomic bytes of information stored in a two-dimensional Flatland.

“If this is true, it’s a really important insight,” Daniel Grumiller, a theoretical physicist at the Vienna University of Technology, told me over the phone. Grumiller, along with physicists Max Riegler, Arjun Bagchi and Rudranil Basu, recently published the very first study offering evidence that the so-called “holographic principle”—that certain 3D spaces can be mathematically reduced to 2D projections—might describe our universe.


“If you asked anyone twenty years ago how many dimensions our world has, most of us would answer 'three spatial dimensions plus time,'" he said. "The holographic principle would mean that this is actually a matter of perspective.”

The holographic principle was first postulated over 20 years ago as a possible solution to Stephen Hawking’s famous “information paradox.” (The paradox is essentially that black holes appear to swallow information, which, according to quantum theory, is impossible.) But while the principle was never mathematically formalized for black holes, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena demonstrated several years later that holography did indeed hold for a theoretical type of space called anti-de Sitter space. Unlike the space in our universe, which is relatively flat on cosmic scales, anti-de Sitter space as described by mathematicians curves inward like a saddle.


“Anti-de Sitter space is not directly relevant to our universe, but it allows us to perform calculations that would otherwise be very difficult if not impossible,” Grumiller said.

Within this theoretical space, Maldacena showed that two sets of physical equations mapped perfectly onto each other: The equations of gravitational theory, and those of quantum field theory. This correspondence was totally unexpected, because while gravity is described in three spatial dimensions, quantum field theory requires only two. That the laws of physics produced identical results two or three dimensions pointed to anti-de Sitter-space’s holographic nature.
“This was the first instance where somebody explicitly showed how holography works,” Grumiller told me. “But given that our universe is not anti-de Sitter space—it’s approximately flat at large scales—it’s interesting to ask whether the holographic principle applies to flat space, as well.”



http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-growing-evidence-that-our-universe-is-a-giant-hologram?utm_source=vicefbus

Then your source will win the Nobel and the world, as we know it, has been fully redefined by their findings...

My source is more authoritative. (I quoted an academic article; you referenced a news article.)

There is no such thing as a theory of everything as of yet. Quantum mechanics describe only a part of reality...

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150409-can-science-ever-explain-everything

Quantum mechanics can (at least, to present knowledge) accurately describe the universe without the supplementation of “Einstein’s theory of relativity” (Stone).

In summary, we have shown here that as for the QRE, the second order Friedmann equation derived from the QRE also contains two quantum correction terms. These terms are generic and unavoidable and follow naturally in a quantum mechanical description of our universe. Of these, the first can be interpreted as cosmological constant or dark energy of the correct (observed) magnitude and a small mass of the graviton (or axion). The second quantum correction term pushes back the time singularity indefinitely, and predicts an everlasting universe.

How can they prove this though?

vs. the guy (BADecker) that is claiming a 600 year old man took 17,000,000 animals onto a giant ship for 400 days with no food or water?  Yep - the bible says so, so it must be true...

You think the OP is the nut job?  

There is growing evidence that OP sucks at reason and science.

There is growing evidence that OP sucks at reason and science.

If that one particle defines everything then it would not matter how fast or how slow that particle zooms around to create every shapes and states in the universe, as even what we observe and feel as space and time would be defined by that particle.

 

There is growing evidence that OP sucks at reason and science.