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tangent4ronpaul
10-24-2010, 07:42 PM
http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/view?q=view%3Apopular&a=w-GSMHCKAH4hpM&source=news&type=embed

Fermilab is Building a 'Holometer' to Determine Once and For All Whether Reality Is Just an Illusion

Researchers at Fermilab are building a “holometer” so they can disprove everything you thought you knew about the universe. More specifically, they are trying to either prove or disprove the somewhat mind-bending notion that the third dimension doesn’t exist at all, and that the 3-D universe we think we live in is nothing more than a hologram. To do so, they are building the most precise clock ever created.

The universe-as-hologram theory is predicated on the idea that spacetime is not perfectly smooth, but becomes discrete and pixelated as you zoom in further and further, like a low-res digital image. This idea isn’t novel; recent experiments in black-hole physics have offered evidence that this may be the case, and prominent physicists have proposed similar ideas. Under this theory, the universe actually exists in two dimensions and the third is an illusion produced by the intertwining of time and depth. But the false third dimension can’t be perceived as such, because nothing travels faster than light, so instruments can’t find its limits.

This is theoretical physics at its finest, drowning in complex mathematics but short on hard data. So Fermilab particle astrophysicist Craig Hogan and his team are building a “holometer” to magnify spacetime and see if it is indeed as noisy as the math suggests it might be at higher resolution. In Fermilab’s largest laser lab, Hogan and company are putting together what they call a “holographic interferometer,” which – like a classic interferometer – will split laser beams and measure the difference in frequencies between the two identical beams.

But unlike conventional interferometers, the holometer will measure for noise or interference in spacetime itself. It’s actually composed of two interferometers – built one atop the other – that produce data on the amount of interference or “holographic noise.” Since they are measuring the same volume of spacetime, they should show the same amount of correlated jitter in the fabric of the universe. It will produce the first direct experimental insight into the fundamental nature of space and time, and there’s no telling what researchers delving into that data might find out about the holographic nature of the universe.

So enjoy the third dimension while you still can. Construction on the first instrument is already underway, and Hogan thinks they will begin collecting data on the very nature of spacetime itself by next year.

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Anyone's brain melted down yet? :D

-t

Pauls' Revere
10-24-2010, 07:47 PM
Much like this famous dot painting. Perhaps the impressionist artist were right in thier perceptions of the world.

http://i49.tinypic.com/ao10nk.jpg

Pauls' Revere
10-24-2010, 07:52 PM
http://http://i49.tinypic.com/ao10nk.jpg

Vessol
10-24-2010, 08:04 PM
Why does it seem like every few months there is SOMETHING AMAZING THAT OMG CHANGES EVERYTHING THAT WE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT OUR WORLD. And then nothing is ever heard of that project again, at least in the MSM and nothing really changes that much.

Remember all the hype surrounding the Large Hadron Collider a few years ago? Not many remember that now.

dannno
10-24-2010, 10:17 PM
lol, reminds me of Bill Hicks:

YouTube - Bill Hicks : Positive LSD story on the News (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1dfGR9G768)



Today a young man on acid realized that all matter

is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather!

sevin
10-25-2010, 07:06 AM
Why does it seem like every few months there is SOMETHING AMAZING THAT OMG CHANGES EVERYTHING THAT WE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT OUR WORLD. And then nothing is ever heard of that project again, at least in the MSM and nothing really changes that much.

Remember all the hype surrounding the Large Hadron Collider a few years ago? Not many remember that now.

Because most people are too stupid to understand what's happened, so they quickly lose interest.

2young2vote
10-25-2010, 10:21 AM
Is this going to have any practical uses?

erowe1
10-25-2010, 11:04 AM
Because most people are too stupid to understand what's happened, so they quickly lose interest.

That and these stories never turn out to be what they're hyped up to be in the MSM.

Petar
10-25-2010, 11:19 AM
So....

If the universe is really 2-D, does that mean that my computer screen is actually a part of my face?

That would be weird.