The Holographic Universe - thoughts?

Madou

Hey, just thought I'd share this; found this essay on the web the other - http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html - and have this guy's book on my shelf ready to go.

Has anyone else read these theories and do they stand-up to scrutiny? Honestly, the implications of this thesis astound me, and has got me reading more into the stuff.

One note though regarding the above essay, critiques have been levelled at Aspect's experiments, in that, the random nature of quarks means their respective states will intersect, therefore, they are not communicating, and any similarities are down to randomness and chance (alot less exciting I find).

Also, Alain Aspect featured in Houellebecq's 'Atomised', no? It's been a while since I read it, but the name rings a bell...

Ostrom

What journal did Aspect publish in? Wouldnt mind taking a look if it isnt too dense

Nevyn

Douglas Adams was right all along, damn those mice.

Madou

efla wrote: »

What journal did Aspect publish in? Wouldnt mind taking a look if it isnt too dense

I don't know tbh, but I'll refer your question to a friend.

nyarlothothep

I really don't buy this at all. Its one thing to describe holograms, quite another to leap from this to summarizing the complexity of existence in the same respect. In fact I think there are a lot of distortions in the article. True, it may be that there is some underlying level of existence where past present and future exist as one in an atemporal aspatial sense but this doesn't equate to the universe being somehow a phantasm. And the supernatural explanations were just nonsensical. The brain study cases doesn't prove anything other than suggesting the possibility that our OS, the subconscious has incredible memory capacity. I'd dare say that its ultimately sneaking in a ghost and ghoulies conception of reality under the guise of scientific justification.

Evilsbane

Yeah, I seem to recall a theory where there's only one electron in the entire universe and it's somehow omnipresent. I'm not convinced, though.

opr

Just got finished with the book and have to say its a really interesting read considering the recent discoveries that have been made.

http://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Universe-Michael-Talbot/dp/0060922583

Here is a video with Michael Talbot the guy who wrote the above book. If you can ignore some of the more lets say newage/paranormal stuff and focus on the stuff routed in science its very interesting.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=59223213350926692#

In very recent times this theory is becoming something that may increasingly be very close to the truth.

Article on the current experiments.

http://www.khouse.org/articles/2009/839/

Nice easy to read explanation of the whole thing.

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/03/is_the_universe_a_giant_hologr.php

Opr

opr

Evilsbane wrote: »

Yeah, I seem to recall a theory where there's only one electron in the entire universe and it's somehow omnipresent. I'm not convinced, though.

One of the things this stems from is the inconsistency in Einstein's relativity theory that maintains that light speed is the ultimate speed limit of the universe and nothing can exceed the speed of light. However, subatomic particles like electrons have been observed to communicate instantaneously with each other regardless of distances separating them an apparent violation or inconsistency with Einstein's 'relativity'. This is all part of something called the 'Aspect's experiment' to which doubts have been cast towards. I haven't really done enough reading around it yet to give my own views on the whole thing.

Opr

Shield

This thread is over a year old so I'm not sure if you'll get a reply.

opr

Yeah didn't see the point in making a new thread as I just wanted to add in the few bits of stuff I had read in and around it since the OP's post.

Opr