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Is the Universe One Giant Hologram?
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cov_route Send message Joined: 13 Sep 12 Posts: 342 Credit: 10,270,618 RAC: 0 |
I find this as confusing as people in 1905 must have found Einsteins paper on relativity. http://rt.com/news/space-evidence-universe-hologram-195/ |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
here is another twist.. http://www.authintmail.com/article/science-environment/universe-could-be-about-collapse-us-scientists-warn The Universe Could Be About To Collapse On Us-Scientists Warn |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Theoretical physics is becoming a show, thanks to Russian billionaire Yuri Milner. He has just assigned a Fundamental Physics prize of three million dollars to Michael Green of Cambridge University and John Schwarz of Caltech "for their efforts in unifying relativity and quantum mechanics via string theory". All this is very demoralizing. Tullio |
Мишель Send message Joined: 26 Nov 13 Posts: 3073 Credit: 87,868 RAC: 0 |
here is another twist.. Oh come on, just look at what it says. 'It could have already happened somewhere'. When I use that kind of phrasing in a paper for uni it generally means 'I have no idea, it just sounds cool'. Just because you have a mathematical model that says something is possible doesn't mean it has already happened. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Chris, your NYTimes article is one year old. Here is where I learned the news: Fundamental Physics Prize Tullio |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
here is another twist.. http://www.authintmail.com/article/science-environment/universe-could-be-about-collapse-us-scientists-warn from the article: here is another twist.. This tremendous transition will occur when a bubble appears in the Higgs field, the invisible energy field present throughout the universe, giving the Higgs particle a different value than the rest of space. I thought the Higgs, has yet to be proven? |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
This is what the CERN director, Rolf Heuer, has said: “I’m thrilled that this year’s Nobel Prize has gone to particle physics,†said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. “The discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN last year, which validates the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, marks the culmination of decades of intellectual effort by many people around the world.†Tullio |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
This is what the CERN director, Rolf Heuer, has said: Does not matter. The universe will always be mysterious. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I agree. What is dark matter? No string theory can explain it. Tullio |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
Swirls in remnants of Big Bang could reveal secrets about Universe's infancy: http://zeenews.india.com/news/space/swirls-in-remnants-of-big-bang-could-reveal-secrets-about-universe-s-infancy_896688.html Scientists observed twisting patterns in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background-light that last interacted with matter very early in the history of the universe, less than 400,000 years after the Big Bang. rOZZ Music Pictures |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
Universe's early galaxies grew massive through collisions It has long puzzled scientists that there were enormously massive galaxies that were already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe, approximately 3 billion years after the Big Bang. Now new research shows that these massive galaxies were formed by explosive star formation that was set in motion by the collision of galaxies a few billion years after the Big Bang. rOZZ Music Pictures |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/31/universe-math-cosmologist-max-tegmark_n_4701754.html Universe Is Made Of Math, Cosmologist Says |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes. Thanx for the link Lynn. I can relate to this article. Mathematics is known as the language of the Universe. rOZZ Music Pictures |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
The universe is not made of math. Math shows up to explain how the universe works--especially in conjunction with Physics, logic and in random events. As for it being a hologram--crazy also--it feels very solid to me. Holograms look real but there is no physical substance to them. |
Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
They are trying to sell books, plain and simple. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Bob DeWoody Send message Joined: 9 May 10 Posts: 3387 Credit: 4,182,900 RAC: 10 |
Fantasies sell well too. Bob DeWoody My motto: Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow as it may not be required. This no longer applies in light of current events. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
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Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34041 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
According to physicist, Roger Penrose, what’s in our head is orders of magnitude more complex than anything one sees in the Universe: "If you look at the entire physical cosmos," says Penrose, "our brains are a tiny, tiny part of it. But they're the most perfectly organized part. Compared to the complexity of a brain, a galaxy is just an inert lump." http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2014/02/the-200000-year-old-human-superbrain-greater-complexity-than-a-galaxy-todays-most-popular.html?utm_content=buffer2abea&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer Sagan believes that extraterrestrials will have brains, "slowly accreted by evolution, as ours have," and will perhaps share similarities. He believes any successful, long-lived civilization will, by necessity, have resolved the tensions of our various brain components. Extraterrestials, too, "will have extended their Mind extrasomatically into intelligent machines." rOZZ Music Pictures |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
I received a letter from prof. Penrose after sending him an unpublished text of mine titled "The coherent brain". He found it "very interesting" and invited me to read his latest book, "Shadows of the mind". This in 1995. I sent him my text and went skiing for a week. When I came back I found his letter, which I prize much. Tulio |
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