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Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram
ananyo writes "A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection. In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity. Maldacena's idea thrilled physicists because it offered a way to put the popular but still unproven theory of strings on solid footing — and because it solved apparent inconsistencies between quantum physics and Einstein's theory of gravity. It provided physicists with a mathematical Rosetta stone, a 'duality', that allowed them to translate back and forth between the two languages, and solve problems in one model that seemed intractable in the other and vice versa. But although the validity of Maldacena's ideas has pretty much been taken for granted ever since, a rigorous proof has been elusive. In two papers posted on the arXiv repository, Yoshifumi Hyakutake of Ibaraki University in Japan and his colleagues now provide, if not an actual proof, at least compelling evidence that Maldacena's conjecture is true."
this would make boobs boring. don't believe it.
Seems like hand-waving to call it a "projection".
I have no idea what any of this stuff means, but I'm going to post it on my Facebook and claim that this is what I thought all along anyway.
The matrix is real???
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
who appear to us as mice
...is no longer not even wrong ?
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "we have a protractor"
Then they will tell you it is recursive too.
But it happened long time ago and in a galaxy far away.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
why oh why are scientists wasting time on this? one step at at time, for now figure out how to cure cancer before worrying about the big picture. you must unzip your pants before worrying about how much piss comes out
There's no room for physicists.
It's turtles all the way down to turtle prime which is a comic book.
Quite a lot older.
So the flat earth society is right?
A lot of people might find this a little hokey, especially coming from the journal Nature. The biggest thing to overcome is science fictions deception of other dimensions. A dimension is just another direction. We know about the six directions we can currently move in (3 dimensions) plus time (which we always move forward through at a constant rate; you can slow down how fast you move through time relative to everything else, but it's not noticeable unless you can afford a very very fast vehicle). Here's a great explanation of extra dimensions:
http://www.phdcomics.com/tv/#010
The other "Things explained" videos are also really good for understanding more complex physics concepts.
just goo & new clear charges plus the undefeatable spirit of creation.. never a better time to consult with momkind our spiritual centerpeace. free the innocent stem cells they have harmed no one.
if we like our current smoke & mirrors.......
The universe is not a hologram stored on a flat plane.
Holograms are not stored in 2 dimensions.
If you project a hologram you have to project it onto something.
Physicists need to stop tugging their dicks in mathematical fancy and start developing ways to TEST things.
The shit they trot out now is more absurd than humors or celestial spheres.
It's R2D2 all the way down, man.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/10/13/1434223/physicists-devise-test-for-whether-the-universe-is-a-simulation
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/10/21/0326216/fermilab-to-test-holographic-universe-theory
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/01/16/1446238/the-universe-as-hologram
So beyond the obvious faults with this oversimplification, the Universe is Flat? Perhaps not in the way a table is flat... but still.
String theory et al give us some testable predictions? Until then its just a crock of bullshit that has wasted 30 years of physics (though certainly enhanced the bottom line of many a journal).
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Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
There's more about it here. This recent work basically suggests that the theory might be true. It is a doubly useful theory in that it allows certain difficult problems in string theory to be solved in the language of conformal field theories and vice versa. If nothing else, it means string theory can be used as a computational tool in certain problems of condensed matter physics even if string theory doesn't pan out as a theory for quantum gravity. But it also makes string theory more likely as a theory for quantum gravity as it makes it in some sense compatible with the holographic principle, which among other things provides a solution to the information paradox of black holes.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
Can I get a few minutes with the source code and a quick reboot?
How many times are people going to publish this same set of crap and call it science? Or is it the same idiots trotting out the same piece of crap trying to convince people it's science? It's simple, Descartes was right and you are wrong. The Universe is not a big computer simulation, and you do exist. I realize that we don't teach Philosophy like we used to, but dang if people should not get a clue.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
Of course, this could mean that half of the potential alternative projections of reality will turn out to be slightly shittier versions of what we have now.
But the other half will have jet packs and rocket cars! And no marketing directors!
---- The above post was generated by the Turing Institute. Maybe.
Now that we are searching for evidence of this hologram, and may be close to establishing something approaching 'proof', won't the folks projecting the hologram alter the program to make it more difficult for us to determine if we are living in a hologram and thus negate our findings which will lead us to do more research and in turn cause the hologram to be changed again? Rinse and repeat.
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You are having typical type mismatch and buffer overflow. Relax. My brain fried when I heard about quantum theory. I do not try to understand physics anymore. Somebody will find a way to test all these crazy theories one day. Then we will live in a parallel universe and real estate on earth will be really cheap.
Is this related to the work that Arkani Hamed and Trnka are doing with Ampletuhedrons? They have discovered a geometry that simplifies calculations and that suggests space and time might not be fundamental to physics.
Someone clever was working out the maximum entropy of a black hole, and found that (unexpectedly) it was proportional to the surface area of the event horizon, not its volume. After some more thought, other clever people found that the full state of every particle that falls into a black hole remains encoded as oscillations and deformations of its surface area.
This leads to the realization that the despite the fact that a black hole's event horizon is seemingly much simpler than a full-dimensional portion of a universe, it's theoretically possible that it's just as rich a simulation. Perhaps the "real" representation of the universe is actually just a rippling membrane, and the 3D view we see around us is just an alternate interpretation. This is where the word "hologram" comes in - it's only an analogy (because flattish holograms seem to encode 3D data).
Now, the word "real" is misleading - neither representation is 'more true', it's just that the fewer-dimensional representation might be a lot simpler. A comparable situation is the way the earth goes around the sun, or the sun goes around the earth. A stationary sun makes models of the planetary orbits a heck of a lot simpler, but a stationary earth makes it a lot easier to give directions to your party.
All of this was theoretical until this recent finding. The researches created two mathematical models of the universe - one of them ten-dimensional (similar to some forms of modern theories of our universe, though the article points out their model was simpler). The other model was a one-dimensional universe filled with ideal springs. These models were identical, in the same way as the 3D universe and the event horizon - they're alternate ways of calculating the same thing.
The researchers discovered that simulations in both of these universe models have the same output - in other words, they do seem to be different ways of describing the same universe.
and earth is Rimmer world?
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It's somewhat disturbing to me that in addition to not understanding the summary, I also don't understand your explanation or for that matter, what the topic under discussion even might be (other than some vague physics thing).
Also I realized apparently I don't know what a holograph is.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... timey wimey... stuff.
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The way I think of the universe, is like a 11 dimensional sphere of putty, that got hit with a hammer. (aka the big bang).
So, the sphere got deformed spraying outward in 3 dimensions (space) while flying off into a 4th (time) and the other 7 dimensions got compressed.
A Particle is a bit of energy caught in a loop around some number of those 7 dimensions, each combination of possible wrapping gives a different fundamental particle, with antiparticles having the same wrap, but opposing spin.
Light/radio 'waves' are caused by the photons looping around one of the higher dimensions, not one of our 3 spatial dimensions, which is how it is travelling in a straight line space, yet still taking a wavering path; like a piece of string wrapped around an infinitesimally small cylinder.
But that's just my mental model, it work well enough to keep me from going mad (I think)
So, the headline is quite wrong. Nothing in this work has directly to do with our universe, nor does it show that we live in a hologram. What it does do is provide some further evidence for a string theory conjecture called AdS/CFT. This conjecture says that "string theory in d dimensions" is precisely the same as "conformal field theory in d-1 dimensions". This is cute, since it lets us calculate some things, for example, one might be interested in calculating something in some field theory, but it is very difficult to do. AdS/CFT lets us translate that thing into a string theory thing, which usually is easier to compute. So people working in condensed matter physics, particle physics and QCD are actually using this string theory conjecture as a computational tool. However, AdS/CFT tells us nothing about our universe, since we know that the type of string theories it talks about can't describe our universe. So it is "only" a useful toy model and computational tool. The article is about that some guys have run computer simulations to calculate something on both sides, so both on the string side, and in the field theory side, and what they get match, as it should if the conjecture is true. This is nice and lends further evidence to the conjecture, but there is plenty of other evidence already known, both numerical and theoretical. So I fail to see how this is important or newsworthy, it feels mostly like useless hype.
Faculty lounge masturbations of hyperdimensional holograms in search of tenure.
God is watching us on TV?
Cool, but my head hurts trying to understand the theory.
They both leave me wondering if they're just big jokes perpetrated on an unsuspecting public.
Basically, there are two major concepts.
First, is duality. This is where two models can represent the same system (they are duals of each other). The thing with duality is that in many cases, a problem that is impossible to solve in one model may be trivially done in another. You may know the duality between time-domain and frequency-domain systems - a convolution in one is a multiplication in the other (which is handy for some really difficult convolutions).
The other concept is a hologram. Take a traditional hologram you can buy as a souvenir - it's just a flat piece of transparent material (glass or plastic), yet look through it and you see a 3D image hovering in space - projected if you will, in 3D. And it is 3D, because you can look around the object. Yet the object is stored on a 2D medium. (FYI - the same concept applies to holographic sights - the dot is projected on the target in 3D space). Holograms are useful because they can cast higher dimensional spaces into lower dimensional spaces, yet retain the original resolution and details of the higher dimensional space (or how they get a 3D projection on a 2D surface).
Holographic theory is one where our 3D world is actually on a 2D surface. Like a hologram.
Now, what the results are is that they found a set of dual systems that represent reality - between string theory and quantum mechanics using holographic theory. In other words, they could do a calculation using string theory and have the results line up with quantum mechanics (and holograms). By proving this, a difficult problem in quantum mechanics can be translated to string theory and be easily solved there, then the results translated back, which gives the same answer as if you did it the hard way.
Everyone should read about Nikola Tesla's Dynamic Theory of Gravity. This explains the workings of the cosmos much better than Relativity, and Quantum Physics. Because Dynamic Theory of Gravity leave no gaps between the quantum world, and everything else. Tesla makes Einstein, and Hawking look like a baby trying to learn advanced Chemistry. If you put them both together, they could not even come close to the IQ of Tesla.
That would seem to support some of the things Tesla proposed. Weird.
Just because we are all holograms does that make us any less real? I think therefore I am! I have feelings damn it! :)
yes. this is absolutely correct and I think this every time I read anything about the 'holographic' universe
however, TFA, once you get past the headlines, doesn't really explain much beyond quoting the researchers on the work's *implications* on string theory and quantum mechanics in general
so, it really isn't that informative
what they're really saying is that the universe is ***made of light***....or say 'electro-magnetic radiation' instead of light b/c its more than visible light obv.
think of the edge of the universe as the edge of a black hole event horizon...in this case, a true 'black body'...at the event horizon, the last thing we can know about the matter/energy at all is the last "light" (aka electro magnetic radiation of all bands) before the very waves of light meet the infinite chaos that is the black hole event horizon. The moment it crosses it is instantaneously obliterated/absorbed by the nothingness/black hole
to put this into context, one branch of a part of high energy physics was founded on a distinction between some old ruling observation/theorem and then the Cosmic Microwave Background came along and flipped everything on its head...the universe is accelerating when it should be decelerating...that new energy pushing the acceleration is 'dark energy'
but, according to this research, we can still have a universe that is essentially made of electro-magnetic radiation...vibrating through the *medium* of the 1-dimensional "strings"...but that's another topic
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The "hol" in hologram comes from whole, not hole, which is where the "hol" in hollow comes from.
Sorry, it comes from the ancient Greek word 'holos' (modern 'olos') which means whole, complete, or entire.
The word 'holy' is an English word, not a Greek word.
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The search for equations to more accurately describe the observable universe is often first formed as a hypothesis, then once the hypothesis is formalized and can be tested it may become a Theory or Law. One can come to such equations through direct observation, such as thermodynamics or Newtonian Gravity, or be theoretical until proven, like Einstein's curved space-time. In other words one can observe something strange then attempt to explain it, or formulate explanations that cover known observations and look for other oddities it may predict later.
String theory of today is not the same as it was 30 years ago. "Crock of Bullshit" isn't remotely descriptive. Once worked out the equations may predict counter-intuitive results, such as when Einstein's equations indicated Black Holes existed... Doubters were rebuffed when we discovered them. All of the equations of physics are wrong -- or, more correctly: they are inaccurate estimations of reality, some are more accurate than others. Newtonian Gravity was verified through observation, and the gravitational constant was calculated -- We later discovered this was wrong. However, it's still a damn good approximation.
Was it a waste for Newton to study gravitation? It had no immediate practical application for every day life, except to explain oddities of celestial motion... We continue to search for a set of equations that are more accurate than what we have now. The history of physics is rife with explosions of disparate equations, and then collapsing of them into more overarching elegant systems of understanding. Equations that provide more accurate results are testable via more accurate observations, even if the equations are not founded on direct physical observation themselves.
When some suggest that "The Universe is like unto a Hologram" due to examination of String Theory, and you call the very equations untestable predictions you only provide direct evidence that that low UID numbers do not necessarily correlate with intelligence, knowledge, or wisdom.
QED.
Sorry couldn't resist thinking of two scenes.
>SNIPSNIP
[McKittrick] (McKittrick approaches Beringer) Jack, there's nothing to indicate a simulation at all. Everything is working perfectly!
[Stephen Falken] But does it make any sense?
[General Beringer] Does what make any sense?
[Stephen Falken] (points to the screens) That!
http://xkcd.com/171/
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My understanding of what it REALLY means is that a model with few dimensions can describe a reality with many dimensions. TFS presumes that the small model is "real" and the many-dimensioned model is the "projection". Database designers see that it's the opposite - reality is complex, but it can be represented using a calculus that has two dimensions, like tables in MySql.
vibrating octolpes of the quantum molecular fluctuating filter flanges clearly disproves this theory, we are in fact a decagram, not a hologram.
Our existence is just some entity's game of Sim City.
Not. Even. Wrong.
None of this is evidence of anything, and anyone who takes these ideas for granted, without the slightest experimental proof whatsoever, can be assumed to be no longer talking about physics.
Arbitrary simulations are not evidence of anything. If you can't even accurately model the planet in a simulation for weather patterns, how do you expect to model something as complex as the universe?
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Vindication.
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So... what I'm getting out of that explanation is that it's entirely possible that our universe is like the Galaxy in Men in Black. In a small jewel within another Universe which is possibly within another in the same way, etc etc.
Awesome. Let's hope no one destroys it.
You must worry about how much piss comes out before you unzip your pants.
Will you get to the toilet in time? Will the door be locked, or will there be a line?
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Can anyone explain why this result doesn't contradict this one?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/06/137634397/physicists-almost-certain-the-universe-is-not-a-hologram
Are we talking about different things here?
Well Plato in new clothes....... So Something new, Something borrowed, And then comes Something blue (should I be looking for The TARDIS then:)))
That's mostly what physicists do these days. Create interesting but unproven, and sometimes unprovable, conjectures. At least the fundamental physicists. "The math is not inconsistent" is all it takes to stir them up.
Tough to get excited about this stuff if you're not a physicist.
. . . the universe is written in its own language, CU (Common Universe).
I'll just ignore the bar tabs in Hong Kong, Singapore, London and San Francisco and the ex-wives attorneys in more places that I have time to pound on the keyboard.
Cheers
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"PHILOSOPHY: Basically, this involves sitting in a room and deciding there is no such thing as reality and then going to lunch. You should major in philosophy if you plan to take a lot of drugs...."
http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~martine/light/barrycollege.html
Unfortunately, some aspects of physics are starting to sound like Dave Barry's take on Philosophy..
I got into this discussion too late to be noticed, but I feel the need to help people understand that this theory is *NOT* stating the universe is a simulation. Projections are not simulations.
What the theory suggests is that of all the dimensions we know about (the article mentions 6, which is how many dimensions you get with one flavor of string theory), some of them are illusion. Like a hologram -- a 2D plastic or glass toy that displays a 3D image. The universe does not contain 6 dimensions; it contains a smaller number, and the rest of the dimensions only appear to be there.
It's likely that the universe contains at least three dimensions, because we would have noticed non-isomorphic behavior in space. But the jury is still out on whether the fourth dimension -- Time -- is an illusion. The same goes for the fifth and sixth dimensions.
None of this says anything about the universe being simulated. That's a philosophical question that physics will probably never be able to answer.
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The fixation on "best" accepted theory is more about hubris than insight.
The Kolmogorov/Chaitin view is that you should believe every statement about the universe that you can't formally disprove—all at the same time— using an exponentially weighted average based on the minimum description length of each viable description (baroque theories with billions of epicycles are down-weighted by k^-1e9, where k is the mean entropy of your typical epicycle). I don't really know the math, so take that with a grain of salt, but it's at least the general idea.
The standard model is extremely cogent and concise. It will exponentially outweigh practically everything else.
The only reason this isn't used is that we pretty much never know the minimum description length for anything (there's a result where something akin to minimum description is length is formally proven to be the hardest computation definable), and we can't take the exponentially-weighted integral of all as-yet undisproven theories by any convenient method.
Any undisproven theory that comes along with the potential to be formulated as cogently (or nearly so) as the standard model should be regarded as valid until proven otherwise (either false, or irredeemably baroque).
There's no sane reason to impose incumbency politics on theory. Theory is not a vote.
But a hologram isn't a real 3D image is it? It realies on the way our eyes see and our brains process images to create an image we perceive as three dimensional, but that takes place between our ears. So I'm assuming this 'hologram' stuff is really just an analogy and I'm none the wiser, really.
All...frozen...
Based on pic in the article, the universe is One Big Goatse
Table-ized A.I.
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Cursor! I need a car that'll make chicks wet.
What? No. Not a fire engine!
Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish.
So Zelazny was right after all.
Too bad that our universe is neither AdS (the cosmological constant is positive) nor ten-dimensional as in the papers.
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GAGUT probably already got there and these guys are just pussies after the fact.
Hologram
- I choked on the red pill and now I'm stuck in limbo
The fact that a simulation inside the hologram is showing htat we're in a hologram cannot be denied. I need to change my religious beliefs to something different quick...
So concluding the universe is a hologram puts string theory on a "solid footing"? All it shows me is that string theorist are all high, or we need a new definition of "hologram".
This recent work basically suggests that the theory might be true.
Are you sure? It seems more to me like it suggests that the theory might not be false. Lots of models look accurate right up until they don't.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I would like to remind people of that one lame superstring theory. It was a joke at college parties... analyzed the book standing up in a library, almost pee'd my pants in the 'science' section. It took forever for the NASA PR guy to come out and remind folks that engineers don't buy fake books, that which remotely stirs interest in theoretical math. Some idiot-savant in a wheelchair comes out and backs something up, do you buy the book?
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"at least compelling evidence that Maldacena's conjecture is true."
Isn't science about theories? Theory of relativity, etc. Newton's Laws turned out not to be the law but its still remains a good theory with limitations.
It is close to asking: do you believe in evolution? I don't believe in anything. Beliefs are for religions. I think the theory of evolution is the best theory to date. If a better theory comes along with better evidence and support I would change my mind.
As I understand this post, not the universe is a hologram. Just the string-theory-based description of it can be interpreted as a description of a hologram. This opens the way for an alternative description of the universe as the reality whose hologram-like description is what we understand of it. Unfortunately the original articles are beyond my grasp ...
Is the use of the term "hologram" designed to imply that an n-dimensional function can describe an (n+m)-dimensional object? The (n+m) dimensional object being a perceptual illusion similar to a hologram?
"There is no god but allah" - well, they got it half right.
However, AdS/CFT tells us nothing about our universe, since we know that the type of string theories it talks about can't describe our universe.
Is that because AdS corresponds to a negative cosmological constant, and as far as we can tell the cosmological constant is positive?
This has always confused me. Why are they working in AdS at all? I figured it was because the math was easier, and they were hoping to reach a point where they understood it well enough to flip around the sign of the constant and get the "real universe" back. Or... maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about, so I apologize if what I just said was gibberish.
...but at least at the bottom, at the gravity-less flat cosmos where a turtle can go about its business without a care in the...universe
My understanding of this theory is that the information about the universe is not encoded on the boundary of the universe (i.e. black hole boundaries) right now, but it is encoded on the boundary of the universe over all time, i.e. the boundaries of black holes for all times plus Big Bang plus maybe the Big Crunch if there is one. This means that if we had perfect information about all of these three boundaries of the universe (for all time, for the first) then we'd also know what happens inside the universe for all time.
While this has a lot of theoretical interest, I'm not sure why it means that the universe is a hologram or anything like that.
Astro physicists have been complaining that there's an enormous part of the universe that should exist but they can't find, and this for ages. Now they're claiming it's a hologam? As far as I know a hologram has no mass. So there's no real universe at all. Instead of missing around 90% of it's mass, now it's missing 100%?
But I think I exist, and if I think, I am. No,
The outcome of 2012 nobel prize in Physics Genetic hologram -Survival of Jesus Christ from negative mirror of Genetic Hologram
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The outcome of 2012 nobel prize in Physics Genetic hologram -Survival of Jesus Christ from negative mirror of Genetic Hologram
Sankaravelayudhan Nandakumar Nandakumar
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In physics, the ‘holographic principle’ is a property described in string theory. It represents a volume of space whose entire information can be imagined as encoded on a boundary of that selected space. The holographic principle started by first observing black hole thermodynamics. There, it was noticed that the informational content of all the objects that got sucked in by the hole can be seen in a scaled sense on the hole’s event Serge Haroche is a professor at the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. He shared the 8m-kronor prize with David J Wineland of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, Boulder. The citation from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said they won "for groundbreaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems" through reflective mirrors.But their works require further production of genetic hologram the transfer dynamics from negative mirror to positive mirror.
Though it may look strange the outcome seems to be two positive and negative mirrors of human body that one survives even after death.The negative genetic mirror is always operative bring out the human bodty in full form in the form of genetic hologram.The Nobel laureates have seeded the point of rebirth even after death unknowingly.
When two particles interact, they become "entangled," which means one particle affects the other at a distance. The connection lasts long after they are separated. Quantum mechanics predicts the bizarrest things. Tiny particles like electrons can simultaneously be in two places, or, more generally, in two states that would seem mutually exclusive in our everyday experience of physics. Similarly weirdly, particles that have once interacted can remain entangled even when they're moved far apart and then influence each other instantaneously, something which Einstein called "spooky action at a distance". These seemingly magical properties could be exploited for exciting real-world applications, if it wasn't for another strange consequence of quantum mechanics: that by simply looking at a quantum system you destroy many of its properties sound a way of trapping individual photons (particles of light) for a record-breaking amount of time. Using extremely reflective mirrors which bounce the photons back and forth,
The real genetic hologram was that of Jesus Christ after his survival after death.
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Out come of Nobel prize 2012
The Nobel prize for physics 2012 has been awarded to two scientists who worked out a way to trap, manipulate and study the fundamental particles of light and matter without destroying them. Their work is a crucial step towards building superfast quantum computers and could lead to ways of measuring time with a hundred times greater precision than is possible using atomic clocks.
When two particles interact, they become "entangled," which means one particle affects the other at a distance. The connection lasts long after they are separated. Quantum mechanics predicts the bizarrest things. Tiny particles like electrons can simultaneously be in two places, or, more generally, in two states that would seem mutually exclusive in our everyday experience of physics. Similarly weirdly, particles that have once interacted can remain entangled even when they're moved far apart and then influence each other instantaneously, something which Einstein called "spooky action at a distance". These seemingly magical properties could be exploited for exciting real-world applications, if it wasn't for another strange consequence of quantum mechanics: that by simply looking at a quantum system you destroy many of its properties sound a way of trapping individual photons (particles of light) for a record-breaking amount of time. Using extremely reflective mirrors which bounce the photons back and forth,
Quantum mechanics operates, particles of matter can exist in multiple states—such as "on" and "off" to reference the binary process by which digital computing operates—at the same time. We may not be able to comprehend what this means outside of mathematics, but scientists have theorized for several decades that harnessing these properties for computing would be a natural way past the issues that loom for today's nanoscale silicon-based transistors, which are running up against atomic-level barriers to functionality the smaller they get. Today's computers use a binary code, in which data is stored in a bit that could be either zero or 1.
Entanglement is a state where the state of two quantum particles (photons, for example) are intrinsically and absolutely linked. Quantum particles, due a principle called quantum superposition, exist in every theoretically possible state at the same time. A photon, for example, spins horizontally and vertically (different polarizations) at the same time. When you measure a quantum particle, though, it fixes on a single state. With entanglement, when you measure one half of the entangled pair, the other half instantly assumes the exact opposite state. If you measure one photon and it’s vertically polarized, its entangled sibling will be horizontally polarized.
But in superposition, a quantum bit, known as a qubit, could be either zero or one, or both zero and one at the same time.This potentially offers a massive increase in data storage, greatly helping number-crunching tasks such as running climate-change models and breaking encrypted codes.
They also allowed him to use quantum entanglement to trace how a quantum system changes from a state of superposition — being in two states at once — to the state of definite existence
As we’ve covered before, entanglement seems to occur instantly, even if the particles are on opposite ends of the universe. This experiment shows how entanglement exists through time, as well as space — or, in scientific terms, the non-locality of quantum mechanics in spacetime
The weird way entangled particles stay connected even when separated by large distances — a phenomenon Albert Einstein called "spooky" — has been confirmed once again, this time with a key loophole in the experiment eliminated.
The results from the new experiment confirm one of the wildest predictions of quantum mechanics: that a pair of "entangled" particles, once measured, can somehow instantly communicate with each other so that their states always match.
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Yes, and the other key point is that if you break that souvenir, the image is contained in every single piece. Once you get your head wrapped around that, the holographic theory of the Universe starts to make a little more sense.
Murphy was an optimist