Interesting !
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?page=1
Kadri.
Let me at the control panel. I want to make changes.
i just read that yesterday!
(ive been looking around the newscietist page a bit)
i want get at the control panel too, so i can increase the detail settings. :D
To really understand the idea i have to read more about this .
In theory i understand (i think :) ) holograms ; but the universe as hologram is not so easy for me .
Did anyone of you guys know other good links about this? Or books ?
Kadri.
thanks, I think!...the term 'the black hole information paradox' made me laugh though!!
Raphael Bousso is a great lecturer at Berkeley. Lots of his lectures are available on itunes. He explains why we would even try to think of the world in this way which should help you to understand the theory better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHgi6E1ECgo
Wikipedia can explain it in a slightly more obscure way, although I would watch the video first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
Thanks , PG . This was really helpful .
It was more like a entry and not so much about Hologram . I have to dig deeper .
The problem for me is that i am not good with mathematic and must do it without it :)
But i love this stuff since i was a kid . But it seems to me that Physics is getting little by little out of my reach.
4 dimension is totally OK . But 10 or 11 ...hmm ! I am a visual thinker as maybe most of you here :)
And this makes it not so easy. Maybe the more abstract mathematic thinker here have it easier to understand .
I think if i live long enough i can see the next revolution in Physics . But if i can understand it i am not so sure :)
Kadri.
I think we're quite close to the revolution you speak of, within the next 15-20 years I think we'll be making our way towards mapping the entire universe and advancing current emergent technologies such as teleportation (that currently exists as copying the entropy of protons between two positions)
I hope it will be in those years. The Large Hadron Collider and such projects will help :)
Kadri.
Quote from: njeneb on February 19, 2010, 12:17:24 PM
Let me at the control panel. I want to make changes.
;D ;D ;D
PG, the youtube lecture was great, thank you!
General relativity (GR) and quantum mechanics (QM) are both ultra tested in their domains and, at the same time, are completely at odds each other so there MUST be something amiss somewhere.
Recently there were news about the work of Erik Verlinde about gravity being an emergent phenomena http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=373815 (http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=373815) and not something fundamental.
My personal bet is that our perception of reality is quite different from what reality is (assuming that there IS something we can call reality) and the fight between GR and QM is due to the fact that while QM describes something fundamental, GR is a second order approximation of emergent phenomena.
Anyway, current and near future experiments are entering the sensibility region in which we will be able to detect useful discrepancies.
In addition, the possible range of masses for the Higgs boson is being trimmed down almost every day and I really hope that in the end we will find that it does not exists, because in this case the Standard Model is not the end of the story but an approximation of supersymmetric ones.
Bye!!!
Quote from: zaai999 on February 19, 2010, 12:47:02 PM
...i want get at the control panel too, so i can increase the detail settings. :D
I don't like that idea.
Increasing the detail settings may result in lower fps and I dont want to live in a next gen world :)
- Terje
Latego , the pdf is longer then i thought . I will read it as fast as i can . Thanks for the link .
Edit :Thanks for the forum link too :)
Kadri.