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"Are We Living In A 'Matrix'-like Superhologram?"
Jun 7, 2017 08:37:31   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
"Are We Living In A 'Matrix'-like Superhologram?"

Posted: 07 Jun 2017 07:52 PM PDT
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"Are We Living In A 'Matrix'-like Superhologram?"
by David Talbot

"In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart. Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.

University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film. When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears.

The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose. Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole. The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts. A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes. This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.

To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration. Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side. As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them. When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.

This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality. Such particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that is ultimately as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these "eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram.

In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.

In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors, would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order. At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.

What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be - every configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of "All That Is." Although Bohm concedes that we have no way of knowing what else might lie hidden in the superhologram, he does venture to say that we have no reason to assume it does not contain more. Or, perhaps the superholographic level of reality is a "mere stage" beyond which lies "an infinity of further development."
- http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/hologram.html

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Jun 7, 2017 09:58:14   #
working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina
 
First off....posts from you like these are really enjoyable. Beats the hell out of the partisan sniping we usually engage in.

Sub-atomic entanglement does lead to some rather strange interpretations of how we perceive reality. I've read about the holographic theory and other multiverse ideas.

My understanding of physics and astronomy, though limited, is one of the reasons I don't take too seriously our current inability in political discourse to agree on what we experience. The contradictions of relativity and quantum theory remind me of the differences between conservatives and liberals.
Though the theories seem diametrically opposed, I think in both instances we are measuring with tools that only illuminate limited parts of a more complex reality.

While the attempt at reconciling quantum theory and relativity has lead to string theory, brane theory, multiverses and holographs, we seem to be only at the beginning steps of working out the differences in the political sphere.

Abstract math is maybe easier than political theory.
Nah...we all probably just have huge blind spots...a huge political cosmic void. Again, thanks.

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Jun 7, 2017 10:40:47   #
pafret Loc: Northeast
 
working class stiff wrote:
First off....posts from you like these are really enjoyable. Beats the hell out of the partisan sniping we usually engage in.

Sub-atomic entanglement does lead to some rather strange interpretations of how we perceive reality. I've read about the holographic theory and other multiverse ideas.

My understanding of physics and astronomy, though limited, is one of the reasons I don't take too seriously our current inability in political discourse to agree on what we experience. The contradictions of relativity and quantum theory remind me of the differences between conservatives and liberals.
Though the theories seem diametrically opposed, I think in both instances we are measuring with tools that only illuminate limited parts of a more complex reality.

While the attempt at reconciling quantum theory and relativity has lead to string theory, brane theory, multiverses and holographs, we seem to be only at the beginning steps of working out the differences in the political sphere.

Abstract math is maybe easier than political theory.
Nah...we all probably just have huge blind spots...a huge political cosmic void. Again, thanks.
First off....posts from you like these are really ... (show quote)



You are entirely welcome and it is a nice break to consider ideas rather than political weenies, their maneuverings, and the blather of partisan sycophants.

While the science and math is daunting, the philosophical and spiritual implications are extremely interesting. The classic paradigm of a Big Bang with subsequent coalescence into solar systems which ultimately produced a miracle of precision in a planet with atmospheric ability to first support life and then to engender it is called into question. If indeed we are all interconnected through space and time then we are in some manner close to godhood. The Diety exists outside of space and time, unchanged and changeless ad infinitum, and all things are/were caused and known by Him. We lack the causative principle and are not yet capable of perceiving the holographic image with sufficient clarity to become cognizant of past, present and future.

Will we develop this knowledge capability or will we have to wait until we merge with the Diety? Is the observation of time an illusion, necessary because we are the creatures not the Creator.?

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Jun 7, 2017 11:04:30   #
confused one
 
Theoretical physicists now point to the existence of eleven dimensions. Michio Kaku stated that most theoretical physicists believe that there is an ocean of universes each governed by different laws of physics that are invisible to us. He mentioned too that the "big bang" was probably a collision between two parallel universes which occurs all the time.
Too bad I don't reside in the one where the Falcons won the last Super Bowl.

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Jun 7, 2017 13:25:07   #
nwtk2007 Loc: Texas
 
I haven't been keeping up with my reading, especially the Scientific American articles et al. Enjoyed the read. Nicely written and explained!

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Jun 7, 2017 16:19:08   #
working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina
 
pafret wrote:
You are entirely welcome and it is a nice break to consider ideas rather than political weenies, their maneuverings, and the blather of partisan sycophants.

While the science and math is daunting, the philosophical and spiritual implications are extremely interesting. The classic paradigm of a Big Bang with subsequent coalescence into solar systems which ultimately produced a miracle of precision in a planet with atmospheric ability to first support life and then to engender it is called into question. If indeed we are all interconnected through space and time then we are in some manner close to godhood. The Diety exists outside of space and time, unchanged and changeless ad infinitum, and all things are/were caused and known by Him. We lack the causative principle and are not yet capable of perceiving the holographic image with sufficient clarity to become cognizant of past, present and future.

Will we develop this knowledge capability or will we have to wait until we merge with the Diety? Is the observation of time an illusion, necessary because we are the creatures not the Creator.?
You are entirely welcome and it is a nice break to... (show quote)


Interesting questions. I find it fascinating that astronomers are still so confused about an issue you raised about the 'miracle of precision' of life on Earth. Seems that mathematically there should be millions of earth-like planets capable of producing life. Yet here we are with just exactly the correct proportion of gravity, matter, and other forces for intelligent life to exist.

I'm starting to come to the opinion that the universe might exist just in this fashion to produce us. The anthropological principle seems rather true, as any variation in some important variables would have doomed us to non existence.

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Jun 8, 2017 17:25:30   #
badbobby Loc: texas
 
working class stiff wrote:
First off....posts from you like these are really enjoyable. Beats the hell out of the partisan sniping we usually engage in.

Sub-atomic entanglement does lead to some rather strange interpretations of how we perceive reality. I've read about the holographic theory and other multiverse ideas.

My understanding of physics and astronomy, though limited, is one of the reasons I don't take too seriously our current inability in political discourse to agree on what we experience. The contradictions of relativity and quantum theory remind me of the differences between conservatives and liberals.
Though the theories seem diametrically opposed, I think in both instances we are measuring with tools that only illuminate limited parts of a more complex reality.

While the attempt at reconciling quantum theory and relativity has lead to string theory, brane theory, multiverses and holographs, we seem to be only at the beginning steps of working out the differences in the political sphere.

Abstract math is maybe easier than political theory.
Nah...we all probably just have huge blind spots...a huge political cosmic void. Again, thanks.
First off....posts from you like these are really ... (show quote)


veeddy interesting
but too deep for pore ole me

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