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Physics breakthrough: Is the universe a
giant hologram?
Scientists have found the clearest evidence
yet that the universe we inhabit is a giant
hologram, paving the way towards reconciling one of physics most
pressing issues: the relationship between Einsteins theory of relativity
and quantum physics.
In other words, we could be living inside a giant 3D projection of what
is actually a two-dimensional space, similar to an IMAX movie theater
screen or a painting. Or one could simply imagine the experience of
looking at a three-dimensional object from various angles and seeing it
change shape according to the point of observation.
The new experimental simulations proposed by Japanese scientist,
Published time: December 13, 2013 17:43
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Yoshifumi Hyakutake, and his team at the Ibaraki University of Japan
tackle the varying energies of black holes discovered in parallel
universes. But it also goes a long way towards marrying Einsteins theory
of general relativity and the theory of quantum mechanics as the two
main theories describing our universe.
The findings were published in the journal, Nature, on December 10.
Einstein, in his collective theorizing, posited
that space and time are related and should
be considered and calculated in relation to
each other, and that the measurements of
objects will be relative to the velocity of the
person observing them. It is very empirical
and observable.
Quantum mechanics, on the other hand,
deals with particle behavior on an infinitely
small scale and therefore cannot belong in
Einsteins empirically testable worldview for
the simple reason that it is too abstract and
theoretical.
Though both suffer from certain
inconsistencies: Einsteins theory, for
instance, breaks down when one imagines
the middle of a black hole an object in
which time and space both collapse the theories have been
competing each other and generally hardly viewed as parallel.
Scientists have been looking for a linking theory.
Hyakutakes model explains some inconsistencies between the two big
models, furthering the research first carried out in 1997. Then,
theoretical physicist, Juan Maldacena, catapulted string theory into the
spotlight providing a reliable realization of the holographic principle.
That theory which is widely said to explain the nature of everything
believes that the universe is made of tiny, immeasurable strings, or
one-dimensional objects that vibrate and fluctuate, and in so doing
account for the activity of all matter and time.
The theory goes that the strings exist in nine dimensions of space and
one of time. But because their scale is so difficult to measure and yet
they are believed to control everything they are said to project their
activity onto a much simpler, flat space with no gravity whatsoever.
In physics, the
'holographic principle' is
a property described in
string theory. It
represents a volume of
space whose entire
information can be
imagined as encoded
on a boundary of that
selected space. The
holographic principle
started by first
observing black hole
thermodynamics. There,
it was noticed that the
informational content
of all the objects that
got sucked in by the
hole can be seen in a
scaled sense on the
hole's event horizon.
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This produced a world without gravity laws. However, it did not yet
prove the universe is a hologram.
Furthering the string theory, Hyakutake wrote two papers.
In one, he measures the internal energy of a black hole specifically,
the place where the hole meets the universe, otherwise known as the
event horizon. He measures the activity of its visible properties (made
up of visible particles) based on string theory and the effects of virtual
particles, which at times appear and then disappear many scientists
even consider them a purely mathematical tool.
In the second paper, Hyakutake and his team calculated the same
activity at lower dimensions (without gravity involved) and the results
matched the measurements of the first paper.
The two new papers take Maldacenas findings further by proposing an
extra dimension. That tenth lower dimension has no gravity and its
particles neatly line up in a set of strings oscillating in harmony,
attached to one another and not in chaos, which is what we had until
now.
And now, the scientists finally seem to have laid hands on mathematical
proof that the universe can be measured according to both approaches
one that involves gravity and one that does not. If they are as identical
as they seem, Maldacena himself predicts that we could one day use
Artist concept of a growing black hole, or quasar, seen at the center of
a faraway galaxy. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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just quantum theory alone to explain the nature of everything in the
universe.
Maldacena has already voiced his excitement at Hyakutakes
calculations, saying that they appear to be correct. He told Nature that
the whole sequence of papers is very nice because it tests the dual [nature
of the universes] in regimes where there are no analytic tests.
They have numerically confirmed, perhaps for the first time, something
we were fairly sure had to be true, but was still a conjecture namely
that the thermodynamics of certain black holes can be reproduced from a
lower-dimensional universe, said Leonard Susskind, a theoretical
physicist at Stanford University, California, who was one of the first
proponents of the theory of the universe as a hologram.
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Bogdan Mandru 14.12.2013 09:59
please do not limit yourself to biological existence -
holograms are just visual percecions . everything that can
be seen it just a spark of ligth spectrum captured by visual
cortex ... in order to understand the universe you must
detach yourself from your pshisical being

Miguel De Cdiz 14.12.2013 09:59
This is great as an academic theory. However, as the article,
this is an old topic.

Roger Stillick 14.12.2013 09:20
Synthetic Aperature Radar SAR uses math to decode the
hologram into a hi-rez pix of the viewed object...
Astro Physics folks have used space telescopes to make the
blue shift / red shift data over the entire life of the
European Space Agency ESA to make a hologram called
"Cosmography of the Local Universe" a 17 minute video...
this flat 3D map describes the form and shape of the entire

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visible universe, form and motion...
IMHO= per this, the universe in normal WYZW cordinates
W=time... is enough and Einstein's photon theories are not
violated...RS.
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