Merrily Merrily Merrily, life is but a microscopic quantum convulsions of space time

[Cunning Stunts]

but isn't the fact we can't interact with our surroundings prove we can't be a holographic projection?

you can project a hologram but you can't interact with it if i'm not mistaken.

What they're saying, basically, is this:

We have always thought black holes absorbed anything that gets near it due to theory, but this may not be true. In order to get "sucked in" a black hole, you have to break through a boundary called an event horizon, or as they call it in the article, "gravitation point of no return." In other words, you have to break through this boundary at some speed or force, and only then can you break through that boundary and get into the black hole. Since one has to travel faster than the speed of light to escape a black hole (as it's assumed that it sucks you in at that rate), you would literally be incinerated should you break through the event horizon.

Now, since we cannot see black holes, because even light cannot escape it, what they're trying to say (from what I've gathered), is that these event horizons act as 2D hologram cards, so to speak, like ones you see on posters or on some credit cards, etc. What we're all experiencing (seeing and feeling), is occurring on these event horizons (or 2D cards).

The black holes act as projectors sitting behind these 2D hologram cards, which project them out much as we saw in the Star Wars movies (those 3D holographic messages that R2 kept spitting out). This allows us, apparently, to see these images as our own. It doesn't act according to our own known physics, which is what's boggling the minds of those who are studying this.

It's not that we're actually holographic images, that's just the metaphor they're using to explain what they've discovered to us not-so-scientifically-smart people.

 

[Danalys]

but isn't the fact we can't interact with our surroundings prove we can't be a holographic projection?

you can project a hologram but you can't interact with it if i'm not mistaken.

no since our surroundings are holograms aswell. all it means is that the interations would be in 2D instead.

 

[Danalys]

And they measure this...how?

the guy who thought of this predicted that a certain interference would be apparent in measurements by a gravitational wave detector.

altho the article goes on to mention that the instrument is so sensitive that they often have to figure out if things like little earth tremors and clouds are effecting it and stuff. so it's not conclusive and the guy who thought of the idea considers it an idea not a theory.

 

[SuBe]

This is about the deepest you get, isn't it?

Yes

 

[Danalys]

how does a holographic universe work?
does that mean that we're all puppets in the hand of some alien playing? Or does all it means is that 3-d things are all a MASS OPTICAL ILLUSION?

more like the second but not quite. since optics involve 3 dimentionallity. why we would experience the hologram as we do is not explained in the article. possibly because if they did peoples head would explode. more likely because they don't know.

 

[Danalys]

Wouldn't multiple light sources interfere with this theory?

no because it's not exactly a hologram. hologram is just an analogy.

 

[Danalys]

What they're saying, basically, is this:

We have always thought black holes absorbed anything that gets near it due to theory, but this may not be true. In order to get "sucked in" a black hole, you have to break through a boundary called an event horizon, or as they call it in the article, "gravitation point of no return." In other words, you have to break through this boundary at some speed or force, and only then can you break through that boundary and get into the black hole. Since one has to travel faster than the speed of light to escape a black hole (as it's assumed that it sucks you in at that rate), you would literally be incinerated should you break through the event horizon.

Now, since we cannot see black holes, because even light cannot escape it, what they're trying to say (from what I've gathered), is that these event horizons act as 2D hologram cards, so to speak, like ones you see on posters or on some credit cards, etc. What we're all experiencing (seeing and feeling), is occurring on these event horizons (or 2D cards).

The black holes act as projectors sitting behind these 2D hologram cards, which project them out much as we saw in the Star Wars movies (those 3D holographic messages that R2 kept spitting out). This allows us, apparently, to see these images as our own. It doesn't act according to our own known physics, which is what's boggling the minds of those who are studying this.

It's not that we're actually holographic images, that's just the metaphor they're using to explain what they've discovered to us not-so-scientifically-smart people.

most of this is rubbish i'm afraid. the part about black holes in the article is just an example of 3D information being able to be stored in 2d in nature.