The Resolution of the Reality Hologram
You might think your fifty inch 1080p screen has a pretty high resolution, but reality is a quadrillion times better - a hundred trillion dots per inch. A collaboration between Fermilab scientists and a hundreds of meters of laser may have found the very pixels of reality, grains of spacetime one tenth of a femtometer across.
The GEO600 system is armed with six hundred meters of laser tube, which sounds like enough to equip an entire Star War, but these lasers are for detection, not destruction. GEO600's length means it can measure changes of one part in six hundred million, accurate enough to detect even the tiniest ripples in space time - assuming it isn't thrown off by somebody sneezing within a hundred meters or the wrong types of cloud overhead (seriously). The problem with such an incredibly sensitive device is just that - it's incredibly sensitive.
The interferometer staff constantly battle against unwanted aberration, and were struggling against a particularly persistent signal when Fermilab Professor Craig Hogan suggested the problem wasn't with their equipment but with reality itself. The quantum limit of reality, the Planck length, occurs at a far smaller length scale than their signal - but according to Hogan, this literal ultimate limit of tininess might be scaled up because we're all holograms.
Obviously.
The idea is that all of our spatial dimensions can be represented by a 'surface' with one less dimension, just like a 3D hologram can be built out of information in 2D foils. The foils in our case are the edges of the observable universe, where quantum fluctuations at the Planck scale are 'scaled up' into the ripples observed by the GEO600 team. We'd like to remind you that although we're talking about "The GEO600 Laser Team probing the edge of reality", this is not a movie.
What does this mean for you? In everyday action, nothing much - we're afraid that a fundamentally holographic nature doesn't allow you to travel around playing guitar and fighting crime (no matter what 80s cartoons may have taught you.) Whether reality is as you see it, or you're the representation of interactions on a surface at the edge of the universe, getting run over by a truck (or a representation thereof) will still kill you.
In intellectual terms, though, this should raise so many fascinating questions you'll never need TV again. While in the extreme earliest stages, with far more work to go before anyone can draw any conclusions, this is some of the most mind-bending metaphysical science you'll ever see. Are we real, or are we quantum interactions on the edges of the universe - and is that just as real anyway?
Once more we see that sufficiently advanced physics is indistinguishable from getting really stoned.
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Posted by: online games | January 22, 2009 at 04:14 PM
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Are we real, or are we quantum interactions on the edges of the universe - and is that just as real anyway?
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Once more we see that sufficiently advanced physics is indistinguishable from getting really stoned.
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LOLMAO - these last words makes the article a fun reading.
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Posted by: veryheaven | January 22, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I always knew I was in bits... now I know just how many!
Posted by: Hamymac | January 23, 2009 at 01:33 AM
Well, in some books is said about civilizations that discovered things and were in other less advanced, i din't believe that could happen, until now; a device that detects noise and to measure they have to calculate the noise that will be always present.
Posted by: jer35mx | January 23, 2009 at 09:15 AM
Astonishing....those guys are doing this at Fermilab ????
What is that for ???
To measure the 'string theory' by using the lasers that are done of light beams which in turn may be an oscillation (i.e. the light may have no mass at all) or may be driven by photons that are the supposed to be 'force driving particles' for the light...that in turn may be interacting with quantum...that in turn interact in general with 'uncertain results'......and if they interact properly...you may say what Einstein said 'God does NOT play chesses'...that in turn has been diputed with quantum based computers or...... supposedly such.
Are these guys (sorry ....scientists) paid for this mega-game ????
Intersting ......where to apply for such a job ??
Yes I tend to agree with Hamymac...I always new that I was an hologram within a BRANE...made of Pixels...Not of Bits....
Regards
Posted by: Claudio | January 24, 2009 at 02:59 PM
Damn, this is cool. And detected with an experiment not even designed for the purpose? Are there plans for exploring this with a purpose-built experiment? If we are a hologram, does that mean we are a creation of some unknown entity? Don't get me wrong, I am atheist to the core. I reject the deification of anything, even if it's real.
Posted by: darter22 | January 24, 2009 at 07:56 PM
Sure, it's a quadrillion times clearer...but everything would have to be in that rainbowed-hologram color. =^p
Posted by: Sudynim | January 25, 2009 at 12:26 AM
It's JUST scratching the surface, current physics is "dewin it wrong"...but academia is stubborn...
The wave/particle duality isnt what it appears to be...
The "electron popping into and out of existence" is completely explainable, and the "god particle" does not exist...
"Matter" and "Gravity" are functions the waves from the levels of energy interacting and crossing boundaries of each dimension creating what we "see" in our cross-section...
The "ripples" are simply "bubbles" if you will, they are seeing as the dimensions intersect at certain levels...and they are only seeing them in 2D instead of 3D for example...
Simply because the current understanding is flawed...and being applied...
*sigh*
Posted by: eviltwinkie | January 25, 2009 at 08:17 AM
If we take in consideration that we are multidimensional beings and that we are capable of traveling between dimensions with our consciousness, then the concept of a holographic universe fits in smoothly.
When we stop squeezing our multidimensional consciousness into a mind controlled 3D culture, then many unsolved scientific questions fall into place.
Its time for us to wake up to the fact, that we have been constantly fed extremely limited concepts of reality by all religion and science likewise.
What is the agenda behind? Dare to ask those "far out" questions. And wake up.
Waking up from this "reality" deception will: Make you see the matrix of manipulation that does exist on this planet. And 2nd show how existential to our survival this waking up is.
Existential and political.
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Posted by: Dany | January 25, 2009 at 05:01 PM
lol@ 'equip an entire star wars.' wut?
Posted by: Ben | March 24, 2009 at 04:06 PM
you're all lloyd syndromes every single one of you
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I have tertiary syphilis.
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