Our world may be a giant hologram

Found a link to this article on Gizmodo from New Scientist: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?page=1

New Scientist wrote:

For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century. For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. 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. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

It goes on to describe some pretty amazing theoretical physics that I haven't heard about before but which even though it sounds pretty fantastic seems to have a pretty solid theoretical backing. This may lead to another Nobel Prize in the near future since evidence of this hologram theory is something we can actually look for and seems to be true for things we have observed like black holes (which are also talked about in the article).

I don't think I need drugs if the real universe is this weird.

Wait for a week. It's a probably the same couple o'mice that caused the same nobel prize theory twenty years ago.
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For bonus points, read the comments at the end of the article. It's like watching a scene from "Big Bang Theory" (which is an excellent show BTW).

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

In some far away dimension, I think I can hear Edwin Abbot Abbot laughing, dancing about, going "nyah, nyah, nyah, I told you so!"
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18Rabbit wrote:

It's like watching a scene from "Big Bang Theory" (which is an excellent show BTW).

I love "Big bang Theory" too but "Chuck" is WAY better, just sayin' !!
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Whoa.
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18R, if you could tour my brain, you wouldn't need the drugs anyway...

lisa wrote:

Wait for a week. It's a probably the same couple o'mice that caused the same nobel prize theory twenty years ago.

There's a theory that if anyone ever discovers what the universe is for,
it'll be replaced by something even more bizarre & inexplicable-
there's another theory that this has already happened...

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lisa wrote: Wait for a week. It's a probably the same couple o'mice that caused the same nobel prize theory twenty years ago. Zenado wrote: There's a theory that if anyone ever discovers what the universe is for, it'll be replaced by something even more bizarre & inexplicable- there's another theory that this has already happened...

Fuck yeah, Douglas Adams...Wooohooo!

That was Douglas Adams, right? Sorry, its the drugs...
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However the universe is receding into a large black hole. That's why it's speeding up.

The universe is an experiment.

Let's hope this one got replaced.
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- Anyway, so there I was spittin on my goldfish tryin to keep it alive....

-"Some people are like slinkies--they are good for nothing, but can still bring a smile to your face by throwing them down a flight of stairs."

Actually the universe is speeding up because of dark energy - it said so on the TV last night so it must be true.

Brenda wrote:

Actually the universe is speeding up because of dark energy - it said so on the TV last night so it must be true.

ummmm...because the dark energy is doing what?
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Being all goth....

Actually if I remember correctly - the dark energy is kind of anti gravity in that it repels rather that attracts.

How quickly can we send this into the gutter folks.....

Brenda wrote:

Being all goth.... Actually if I remember correctly - the dark energy is kind of anti gravity in that it repels rather that attracts. How quickly can we send this into the gutter folks.....

Yeah, especially by bringing up Dick Cheney and all...
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