Posted on 01/15/2009 10:56:37 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.
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.
If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, 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."
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
It’s called “The Matrix”
Yea, we know about it.
“Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.”
That makes my brain hurt :)
hologram. right.
This explains why my wife’s assets pop out at me.
Strange..
Does this hologram make my butt look big?
I would have to look a bit closer at what is being said here, but it might not be too far off the mark, as far as what our Creator God did, in creating the material universe, in its dimensionality and time components.
It’s clear the the “life” that resides in each person is eternal from what the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob tells us. And yes, He tells us that because of our sin nature (in our life) that we either need to accept the salvation offered by Jesus, the Messiah of Israel and have that eternal life with God, forevermore — or — be separated from Him, in the lake of fire, apart from all the good that God is, suffering in that decision of ours, forevermore after that.
Our “life” may very well be existing in a sort of hologram (loosely used here...) of a sort of “construct” of discrete and indivisible particles, made expressly for our life that God has created.
The Bible does say that at a time in the future, that all this (current universe) will be dissolved, the judgement of God will be dispensed (in Revelation 20, at the Great White Throne judgement) and then a new creation will be made, absent the corruption of sin and death and evil (of our previous existence).
“It’s not the hologram, hon.”
;)
Is it plugged in?
Is that a hologram in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Militant
Does that mean we are all just the equivalent of Flat Stanley?
I welcome the new technology, I was so tired of living in a world that was a 50’s 3-D movie.
The glasses bugged.
Can almost hear the next press release from the GEO600 team........D'oh!
I read a book about twenty years ago, I think was called The Holographic Universe. It’s not really a theory just an idea. Lot’s of speculation, almost nothing as far as proof goes. Interesting read though.
Read C.S. Lewis’s “Great Divorce”, it’s a real eye opening, we think of the world God lives in with angels as a whispy smoke field world, but in reality, our world is the mere shadow. I found this book to be astounding.
Information conversion into energy ping.
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