The headline is tantalizing, but this is almost impossible to grok for a layperson like me.
Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
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Re: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
#32It's interesting that to a layman this seems like almost the exact opposite of what string theory proposes dimensionally. Holographic universe theory is stating there are effectively less dimensions, while string theory shows there could be significantly more.
I'm not sure you're a 'layman' if you understand string theory.
But a layman might conflate two things that they do not understand.
Re: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
#33Re: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
And there you go... there's the answer to everything. A black hole on one side and, on the other side (the side we don't know), there's a whole new universe being sprung up. Each input goes to the output of a different black/white hole combo.
Tempting, but there's no evidence to support that.
Absolutely correct... but continue down the path of wild, unjustified speculation... perhaps then "Dark Energy" is nothing more than "Hawking Radiation" as it appears from a perspective within the black hole. :-P
Re: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
#35It's interesting that to a layman this seems like almost the exact opposite of what string theory proposes dimensionally. Holographic universe theory is stating there are effectively less dimensions, while string theory shows there could be significantly more.
This is the first time I've read anything about Holographic universe theory and I really don't understand anything about it yet. But, does this mean we were the ones living in a 2-dimensional "flatland" the whole time?
So the earth is flat - told you so :-)
Re: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
#36It's interesting that to a layman this seems like almost the exact opposite of what string theory proposes dimensionally. Holographic universe theory is stating there are effectively less dimensions, while string theory shows there could be significantly more.
This is the first time I've read anything about Holographic universe theory and I really don't understand anything about it yet. But, does this mean we were the ones living in a 2-dimensional "flatland" the whole time?
I think it means the max amount of information in the observable universe is bounded by the amount of information that could fit on the 2D surface of a spherical event horizon of a black hole of the same size.
Re: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
#37It's interesting that to a layman this seems like almost the exact opposite of what string theory proposes dimensionally. Holographic universe theory is stating there are effectively less dimensions, while string theory shows there could be significantly more.
This is the first time I've read anything about Holographic universe theory and I really don't understand anything about it yet. But, does this mean we were the ones living in a 2-dimensional "flatland" the whole time?
One way to think about is what goes on in a video game - you see characters on screen, but in the computer you actually have some data-structures describing them.
So a Player data-structure maps to a Player on screen, in the same way that some configuration of qubits on the surface of the universe corresponds to some thing from the "bulk" that we see.
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#38I'm having some trouble understanding this sentence: " [...] our 3-D ‘reality’ (plus time) is contained in a 2-D surface on its boundaries." What, exactly, do they mean with 'on its boundries'?
Have you ever seen a hologram?
Shine lasers on a 2-D surface, and interference patterns create a 3-D image in mid-air. You see a 3-D object, but all information is actually stored in 2-D.
This is the same idea.
Re: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
And there you go... there's the answer to everything. A black hole on one side and, on the other side (the side we don't know), there's a whole new universe being sprung up. Each input goes to the output of a different black/white hole combo.
Tempting, but there's no evidence to support that.
Indeed, but there is research underway to find evidence:
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Re: Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe
#40This is like the wang carpets from Greg Egan's Diaspora novel.