Posted on 05/06/2021 6:00:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Prior to his death on March 14, 2018, the English theoretical physicist created a theory that changed the way we think about the universe. Working with Belgian professor, Thomas Hertog, from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Hawking theorised that our three-dimensional reality is an illusion.
Put simply, Professors Hawking and Hertog speculated that all information in the universe is stored on a flat 2D surface and our so-called “solid” world around us is then projected from that information.
Back in 2018, Professor Hertog said: “It's a very precise mathematical notion of holography that has come out of string theory in the last few years, which is not fully understood but is mind-boggling and changes the scene completely.
“The key point is that we're not projecting out a spatial dimension. We are projecting out the dimension of time from 'before' the Big Bang.”
Published a month after his death in the Journal of High Energy Physics, the theory is compatible with eternal inflation and Einstein’s theory of General Relativity.
Defining what makes a hologram, Professor Hertog explained that it can be viewed as a kind of dimensional change.
Professor Hertog added: “It's a theory that envisages a beginning to the universe where time is not present but our notion of time crystallises.
“And it's saying that time is fundamentally coming out of some other state for which we have no words.
“Some very abstract timeless state - that's the best we can do.”
Professor Hawking was a leading expert on string theory and quantum physics who helped piece together the ‘multiverse theory’ in which many worlds exist in parallel but each with its own evolution.
Despite adding great insight to the theory, Hawking was sceptical, once commenting in 2017 that he had “never been a fan of the multiverse”.
Professor Hertog said that before his friend’s death, Professor Hawking felt holography might offer a better understanding of the multiverse theory.
Professor Hawking said: “We are not down to a single, unique universe, but our findings imply a significant reduction of the multiverse, to a much smaller range of possible universes.”
His final published theory is not the first to imagine the universe as a form of pseudo-existence as theories have arisen over the last few decades indicating that humanity is living in a ‘Matrix-like’ simulation.
wonder if he came up that theory during his visit to Epstein Island.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/stephen-hawking-paid-visit-island-4968224
It would explain why the left thinks it can remake the universe by writing laws.
Well I guess he knows better now.
Karl Pribram & David Bohm touched on this theory related to brain function and the implicate & explicate order back in the 1980s.
Were are the turtles?
Touche!
Biden is a hologram for sure
I miss old-time physics.
Old-time physicist: “In the absence of air resistance, the acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 m/s^2. That value has been verified by many experiments.”
Modern physicist: “Our universe could be a hologram trapped within a black hole that is itself located in a giant pizza box. I have no evidence of that. So I claim that just for the hell of it.”
Like when it actually led to some useful knowledge?
This seems to be mental masturbation.
Speaking of insanity and parallel universes.
A Petition With Over 2 Million Signatures Calls for $2,000 Monthly Stimulus Checks for Every American
Yahoo News ^ | Josephine Nesbit Thu, May 6, 2021, 5:00 PM
Posted on 5/6/2021, 5:42:21 PM by 11th_VA
So far, more than 2 million have signed a petition calling for $2,000 monthly stimulus checks for every American. This petition was started by Stephanie Bonin, a Colorado restaurant owner, and was first posted on Change.org last year, reports Business Insider.
In Bonin’s petition statement, she says that she is one of millions of Americans who fear for their financial future because of the COVID-19 crisis. “With businesses and schools closing across the country to control the spread of this virus, many people have already lost their jobs. Others are being forced to stay home. This is catastrophic for working families like mine.”
“I’m calling on Congress to support families with a $2,000 payment for adults and a $1,000 payment for kids immediately, and continuing regular checks for the duration of the crisis,” said Bonin. “Otherwise, laid-off workers, furloughed workers, the self-employed, and workers dealing with reduced hours will struggle to pay their rent or put food on the table,” she said.
“It took nine months for Congress to send a second stimulus check, and just moments to spend it. Another single check won’t solve our problems – people are just too far behind,” explains Bonin...
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Unless he had a deathbed confession, the only reality for him is eternal pain and regret.
I didn’t know he died.
I once saw the future. It was specific - a guy died at a particular time and place in Paris. In real life I was there but never saw what actually did happen since where I was standing it wasn’t visible to me.
I’ve always wondered how this could happen. How could I - in Vancouver, WA at the time, see that this particular person who was Italian and I really never spoke to since he didn’t speak English, died in Paris 3 weeks later at a specific time and place.
I need that string theory had to be nuts. It is true, though, that if you put a neatly rolled up wad of string in a drawer, and try to retrieve it a few months later, that it will be hopelessly tangled.
Seriously, though I rather wondered if some of his later theories were pretty far fetched,one way or another.
Hawking was overrated. There were a lot of black hole physicists when Hawking announced his theory. His was the one publicized. If he did not have that Dr Strangelove disability that put him in a wheelchair for a good part of his life, we would never have heard of him.
I lean toward a hemisphere supported by two giant elephants standing on a humongous tortoise. I don’t know what the tortoise is standing on. Needs a little more work.
it turtles all the way down.
> Like when it [physics] actually led to some useful knowledge? <
Yes. IMHO physics went astray when string theory became the big thing. There is no real experimental evidence for string theory. And by its very nature most physicists believe there can never be such evidence.
Yet many university physics departments dropped everything to study string theory. It was kinda like leaving hard science and going into fantasy novel writing.
Oh, and if you were a new professor and doubted string theory, forget about getting tenure.
C'mon, man! It's turtles all the way down ...!
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