Science Corner

[bigmoog]

New Scientist: Our world may be a giant hologram

excerpt:
"Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

The "holographic principle" challenges our sensibilities. It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true."

utter, utter Quackery masquerading as science...the earth is flat, doncha know



incidentally, current waaaaaaaaaaay out there cosmology (that I happen to sort of enjoy reading about....) is M-theory etc


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brane_cosmology

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_dimensio ... ery_theory

'The ekpyrotic theory hypothesizes that the origin of the observable universe occurred when two parallel branes collided.'


of course!!!!!!!!!!!!
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[Janus]

In the Matrix, which pill would you take, the red or the blue?.. ....
both why not?

[Michael66]

In the Matrix, which pill would you take, the red or the blue?.. ....
both why not?

We're TD listeners, it's red pills all the time ...

[timer]

In the Matrix, which pill would you take, the red or the blue?.. ....
both why not?

We're TD listeners, it's red pills all the time ...

All According to which spammer you use

[redziller]

Blimey, just beacuse a 3space is mappable on to a 2space doesn't make it so. And if it feels the same inside then it's pointless to say which it is. After all we can represent what we casually percieve as space-time just as well in momentum-energy space but what of it? Our perception-space is space-time so that's what we know about. Anything else is angels on pinheads.[/u]

[bigmoog]

Blimey, just beacuse a 3space is mappable on to a 2space doesn't make it so. And if it feels the same inside then it's pointless to say which it is. After all we can represent what we casually percieve as space-time just as well in momentum-energy space but what of it? Our perception-space is space-time so that's what we know about. Anything else is angels on pinheads.[/u]

fairly sensible post

[bigmoog]

BM put this on headlines thread but here as well as it's an interesting experiment what I had a tiny tiny tiny input on a few ears ago (how I wish I still had some employ )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8593780.stm

[bigmoog]

very good.......not long until we encounter extraterrestrial life


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11070991

[billythefish]

very good.......not long until we encounter extraterrestrial life


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11070991

Let's hope it's intelligent

[pb2rdf]

If it's intelligent, it does not visit earth

[Red Morpho]

If it's intelligent, it does not visit earth

What..... not even to attend a TD concert?

[bigmoog]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11161493

and yet, in the last sentence Stephen invokes 'for then we would know the mind of God'


whats your decision on the cause of creation at Tequalto0.....Im tending towards the idea of Ekpyrotic Universe

http://wwwphy.princeton.edu/~steinh/npr/



PS: I, briefy, had the pleasure of meeting and chatting to Stephen in Oxford in 1996....and he agreed with everything I said

[Marakesh]

I'm looking forward to Richard Dawkins programme about how people are turning their backs on science

[bigmoog]

I'm looking forward to Richard Dawkins programme about how people are turning their backs on science

I have recently watched compilations of his documentaries on More4, he is a very intelligent scientist, but sometimes is as 'i am right' as the people who believe (in excess of 45percent of americans) in creationism and that the earth is 10,000 years old



http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolut ... esign.aspx

[TangFanIRL]

If it's intelligent, it does not visit earth

Except to listen to TD music of course!!!