We are living in a hologram...

Dagon

...it's the matrix of illusion! This is an excellent video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4gzzt_the-matrix-of-illusion_tech

What do you think?

biko

The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

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

Plato discussed a similar approach in the cave allegory I think.

thebouldwhacker

Dagon wrote: »

...it's the matrix of illusion! This is an excellent video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4gzzt_the-matrix-of-illusion_tech

What do you think?

Hmmm, i'm pretty open minded but once you see david ike involved thats me out... sorry.

hiorta

Could well be so.
So much, if not all, of our physical experience of 'reality' seems to be no more than illusion.