Space Sciences The universe is actually a hologram, scientists say

[Amy SF]

It’s not a movie — the universe really is a hologram, according to new science
By Travis Gettys
Thursday, December 12, 2013 9:22 EST

A team of physicists has found evidence to support an idea long theorized by philosophers and stoners alike that the universe might actually be one big holographic projection.

Theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed in 1997 that gravity is the result of vanishingly small, vibrating strings that that exist in nine dimensions of space and one of time.

If that were the case, then the universe would essentially be a hologram – a simpler, flatter cosmos without gravity – that is perceived much the same way that Plato described in his Allegory of the Cave.

“The work culminated in the last decade, and it suggests, remarkably, that all we experience is nothing but a holographic projection of processes taking place on some distant surface that surrounds us,” wrote physicist Brian Greene, of Columbia University. “You can pinch yourself, and what you feel will be real, but it mirrors a parallel process taking place in a different, distant reality.”

Full story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/...eally-is-a-hologram-according-to-new-science/

 

[Blobbenstein]

I suppose it is not really a hologram, just a 3D interpretation of a higher dimension. Perhaps like cutting through a tree and the surface with the rings on is a 2D version of the 3D tree, as a bad analogy.


I like the idea I think, but it's not about light projections. It's the workings of a higher dimensional 'surface', interpreted as our 3D universe.....I think.

 

[FortyTwo]

Eh, this is the kind of flaky theoretical stuff that plagues the field of Physics.

One of the reasons I don't care much for String Theory, although maybe it's beyond me.