RosebudMarie Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328 I don't know anything about physics, but I wonder if this could be a sign of an afterlife of some kind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slave2six Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Well, if it is, whoever I'm the avatar for needs better gaming skills. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenstar Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 No shit, eh? ^^^ That's perfect! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueScholar Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Yeah, this is a tough one. The holographic concept has been around for a while and was what ultimately put an end to the Leonard Susskind/Stephen Hawking black hole war. The concept is a way of thinking about information and entropy. It's often not talked about, but entropy is fundamentally about information. It's not a way of supporting an afterlife hypothesis, but certainly a way of looking at the information about "life" in general. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravenstar Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Wasn't there some talk abut black holes being the 'engine' (may be a bad analogy) for a holographic universe? Maybe 'storage' is a better term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
midniterider Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Well, if it is, whoever I'm the avatar for needs better gaming skills. He's probably got a lousy keyboard filled with bits of pizza crust. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miekko Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I find it fascinating how a lot of people, whenever the holographic universe hypothesis gets some support go all "yay science says the universe doesn't really exist", which isn't really at all what this would imply - this would imply that it indeed exists, but has a different underlying mathematical structure than we'd spontaneously think it has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creative Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 The matrix is real Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosebudMarie Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 I find it fascinating how a lot of people, whenever the holographic universe hypothesis gets some support go all "yay science says the universe doesn't really exist", which isn't really at all what this would imply - this would imply that it indeed exists, but has a different underlying mathematical structure than we'd spontaneously think it has. Thanks for that, I don't understand physics much, so I have had some trouble understanding this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geezer Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Multi Universes, Multiple Dimensions, or a Hologram Universe opens the door to a lot of other possibilities. Numerous scientists have noted that our “reality” consists of that which we can process with our senses. One scientist noted our five senses are like a radio in that they can only receive the signals our brain can process. That does not eliminate the possibility there are other signals and energy forces our brains cannot process. In a nutshell, that says to me that what we call the supernatural theoretically may actually exist. If by chance other realities do exist that still doesn’t mean Christianity is true or that the god of the bible exists. I find theoretical physics enormously interesting and exciting. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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