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"Our world may be a giant hologram"
« on: February 09, 2010, 01:37:54 am »
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A really interesting article on the possibility that our universe is a hologram
(take note that it is just an idea at the moment, and not a really a theory yet)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true

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Re: "Our world may be a giant hologram"
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2010, 01:32:50 pm »
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I wouldn't call Newscientist the most reputable science journal in the world :P I find its usually filled with 'popular' science and not much use to the serious scientist just for those who are interested in science.

However I have heard this hologram idea before but I'm not convinced... maybe I just don't understand the physics.

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Re: "Our world may be a giant hologram"
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2010, 03:21:13 pm »
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I wouldn't call Newscientist the most reputable science journal in the world :P I find its usually filled with 'popular' science and not much use to the serious scientist just for those who are interested in science.

Lol, pop-science! But yeah these journals won't really be 'serious'. Still I love reading them as some are really fun to read about. 

However I have heard this hologram idea before but I'm not convinced... maybe I just don't understand the physics.

Lol.

I haven't heard about it nor do I even come near understanding the physics. Modern physics has a lot of weird stuff that I can't get my head around and then I feel like a laymen. I remember in year 9 before I did physics as a school subject, I would go on wikapedia to search up things and go on tangents. I have always wanted to possess this knowledge and so I now study physics.     
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Re: "Our world may be a giant hologram"
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2010, 06:14:26 pm »
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Just a funny feeling... but I suspect that if you follow the white rabbit...
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« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2010, 06:16:30 pm »
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This is more philosophy than physics, but what difference would it make?

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Re: "Our world may be a giant hologram"
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2010, 06:19:23 pm »
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Just a funny feeling... but I suspect that if you follow the white rabbit...

... you are equivalent to Neo? I can't wait to see who that is! :P
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« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2010, 06:38:59 pm »
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Just a funny feeling... but I suspect that if you follow the white rabbit...

Is that adressed at me? :S

This is more philosophy than physics, but what difference would it make?

According to 'The Elegant Universe, by Brian Greene' there is a huge difference. Such as the battle as to whether string theory is science or just a philosophy and if you can't prove it is true then nobody should believe it.
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« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2010, 08:12:25 pm »
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Just a funny feeling... but I suspect that if you follow the white rabbit...

Is that adressed at me? :S

No... no-one in particular... I would have quoted you if it was... watchman caught on with where I was headed.
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« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2010, 09:00:18 pm »
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Just a funny feeling... but I suspect that if you follow the white rabbit...

... you are equivalent to Neo? I can't wait to see who that is! :P

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« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2010, 09:01:19 pm »
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Just a funny feeling... but I suspect that if you follow the white rabbit...

... you are equivalent to Neo? I can't wait to see who that is! :P

WTF?

Matrix analogy, Neo = "next christ" :D
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