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The Universe As Hologram
Several readers sent in news of theoretical work bolstering the proposition that the universe may be a hologram. The story begins at the German experiment GEO600, a laser inteferometer looking for gravity waves. For years, researchers there have been locating and eliminating sources of interference and noise from the experiment (they have not yet seen a gravity wave). For months they have been puzzling over a source of noise they could not explain. Then Craig Hogan, a Fermilab physicist, approached them with a possible answer: that GEO600 may have stumbled upon a fundamental limit where space-time stops behaving like a smooth continuum and instead dissolves into "grains." The "holographic principle" suggests that the universe at small scales would be "blurry," its smallest features far larger than Planck scale, and possibly accessible to current technology such as the GEO600. The holographic principle, if borne out, could help distinguish among competing theories of quantum gravity, but "We think it's at least a year too early to get excited," the lead GEO600 scientist said.
How do you know what your observing isn't all an illusion?
Because I'm a thinking being engaged with the world around me, not a navel-gazing mystic.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
Earlier in the thread you demonstrate that you don't really know what a philospher is, now you demonstrate that you don't know what a mystic is... and that you're unaware of the particulars of anything you're talking about, such as what the ancients were doing. Come back when you lose your hard on against "philosophers and mystics", which appears to be a phrase you read once in a book and now equate as the same. You're ignorant. Stop talking. You're exactly like a Christian missionary, only less educated.