Universe as Hologram
Jan. 16th, 2009 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mik3caphttp://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true
The implications of this latest theory about existence are pretty neat. Please excuse my liberal use of quotes in the following ramblings. Also please forgive me if this sounds ridiculously stupid for using a cheesy sci-fi movie as an analogy.
So, here's what I understand to be the basic underpinnings of this idea. "You", as in the collection of particles that make up your being as a person in this universe, are really just a projection of some other "stuff" in a "place" outside of the entire "universe". Sort of like the movie Tron, where there's a lower world and a higher world - the world inside the computer and the world outside. And what happens in that movie is that a person is "digitized" and sent from one world to the other.
I don't think this would make any sense in the context of the universe-as-hologram theory - you can't take a picture and pull a person out of it (or vice versa), that's not possible. Essentially, we, the universe, are just "abstractions". We're the picture, and whatever is projecting us is the "actual" reality. BUT... what if we can view and understand this base level of existence? What if quantum entanglement is an effect of some interaction that happens at that fundamental level? Imagine that we can build devices that can somehow make observations at that level of existence - could we see the interactions that previously produced the past, or the ones that are about to create the future? Imagine being able to view and interpret the "higher world"; if it were like Tron that would be like the programs being able to read their own code, almost the same way that Flynn gets godlike powers and understanding due to his ties to the "real" world.
So now let's take it another level - let's say that we figure out how to influence the higher world and somehow directly manipulate it. What if you could take all of the fundamental "stuff" that makes you up and move it from one "place" to another? The projection that is "you" would teleport, no?
This makes me sound like a crazy person. But sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic, right?
Another thought: What world are we creating? What projections exist "below" us?
The implications of this latest theory about existence are pretty neat. Please excuse my liberal use of quotes in the following ramblings. Also please forgive me if this sounds ridiculously stupid for using a cheesy sci-fi movie as an analogy.
So, here's what I understand to be the basic underpinnings of this idea. "You", as in the collection of particles that make up your being as a person in this universe, are really just a projection of some other "stuff" in a "place" outside of the entire "universe". Sort of like the movie Tron, where there's a lower world and a higher world - the world inside the computer and the world outside. And what happens in that movie is that a person is "digitized" and sent from one world to the other.
I don't think this would make any sense in the context of the universe-as-hologram theory - you can't take a picture and pull a person out of it (or vice versa), that's not possible. Essentially, we, the universe, are just "abstractions". We're the picture, and whatever is projecting us is the "actual" reality. BUT... what if we can view and understand this base level of existence? What if quantum entanglement is an effect of some interaction that happens at that fundamental level? Imagine that we can build devices that can somehow make observations at that level of existence - could we see the interactions that previously produced the past, or the ones that are about to create the future? Imagine being able to view and interpret the "higher world"; if it were like Tron that would be like the programs being able to read their own code, almost the same way that Flynn gets godlike powers and understanding due to his ties to the "real" world.
So now let's take it another level - let's say that we figure out how to influence the higher world and somehow directly manipulate it. What if you could take all of the fundamental "stuff" that makes you up and move it from one "place" to another? The projection that is "you" would teleport, no?
This makes me sound like a crazy person. But sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic, right?
Another thought: What world are we creating? What projections exist "below" us?
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on 2009-01-17 01:40 am (UTC)This is awesome.
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on 2009-01-17 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-01-17 06:52 pm (UTC)