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Are we living in a hologram?

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Err, yes, We really live in a kind of matrix.
 
Are we living in a hologram?

This could all be a simulation. Impossible to disprove.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Are we living in a hologram?

This could all be a simulation. Impossible to disprove.
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I think he's accidentally referring to the holographic universe theory...

Some physicists actually believe that the universe we live in might be a hologram. The idea isn't that the universe is some sort of fake simulation out of The Matrix, but rather that even though we appear to live in a three-dimensional universe, it might only have two dimensions. It's called the holographic principle. The thinking goes like this: Some distant two-dimensional surface contains all the data needed to fully describe our world — and much like in a hologram, this data is projected to appear in three dimensions. Like the characters on a TV screen, we live on a flat surface that happens to look like it has depth.

It might sound absurd. But when physicists assume it's true in their calculations, all sorts of big physics problems — such as the nature of black holes and the reconciling of gravity and quantum mechanics — become much simpler to solve. In short, the laws of physics seem to make more sense when written in two dimensions than in three."It's not considered some wild speculation among most theoretical physicists," says Leonard Susskind, the Stanford physicist who first formally defined the idea decades ago. "It's become a working, everyday tool to solve problems in physics."

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Holographic universe theory: why some physicists believe we're living in a giant hologram - Vox

See also

Information in the Holographic Universe - Scientific American

Holographic principle - Wikipedia


There is of course the separate theory that the universe is simulated....but I've never heard to it referred to with "hologram"...
 
Mr Person said:
There is of course the separate theory that the universe is simulated....but I've never heard to it referred to with "hologram"...
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Well, the religion of science does,
 
zyzygy said:
What happens if the power fails? The makers of the hologram may not be able to pay the electricity bill.
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As Mr. Person points out in #7, a hologram would contain all the data to recreate our world. So if it's a hologram, the data would still be there, & could be read & translated into imagery whenever the power comes back on.

I assume the principle is the same for a holodeck; but of course, I've never seen the specs for a holodeck.
 
This is worse than your usual trash
 
Palandro said:
What is exactly trash and why and why is this worse?
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All the threads crated by the Op are trash and this is the worst as it is the farthest from having any connection to reality
 
southwest88 said:
As Mr. Person points out in #7, a hologram would contain all the data to recreate our world. So if it's a hologram, the data would still be there, & could be read & translated into imagery whenever the power comes back on.

I assume the principle is the same for a holodeck; but of course, I've never seen the specs for a holodeck.
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Do you need to wear specs in a holodeck?
 
I don't think that a hologram could feel pain.
 
zyzygy said:
What happens if the power fails? The makers of the hologram may not be able to pay the electricity bill.
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southwest88 said:
As Mr. Person points out in #7, a hologram would contain all the data to recreate our world. So if it's a hologram, the data would still be there, & could be read & translated into imagery whenever the power comes back on.

I assume the principle is the same for a holodeck; but of course, I've never seen the specs for a holodeck.
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To be clear, the holographic universe theory is more of a different way to view reality.

It's entirely separate from any notion that we are a simulation (ie, a hologram produced by a program run on Star Trek's holodeck). I really can't explain it any better than the links. And I'd bet one would have to be a theoretical physicist to truly grasp the point.

But again, it's not that we are holograms generated by a computer, aka, simulations. We are "real" in a holographic universe, it's just that the three large spatial dimensions are an illusion created by information on a two-dimensional surface (but again, not 'information' in the sense of a program running on a computer somewhere)
 
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Mr Person said:
To be clear, the holographic universe theory is more of a different way to view reality.

It's entirely separate from any notion that we are a simulation (ie, a hologram produced by a program run on Star Trek's holodeck). I really can't explain it any better than the links. And I'd bet one would have to be a theoretical physicist to truly grasp the point.

But again, it's not that we are holograms generated by a computer, aka, simulations. We are "real" in a holographic universe, it's just that the three large spatial dimensions are an illusion created by information on a two-dimensional surface (but again, not 'information' in the sense of a program running on a computer somewhere)
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Tell that to Palandro, maybe he will understand. He was vaguely referring to Susskind's holographic universe, which as you pointed out does not suggest that we live in a computer program.
 
zyzygy said:
Tell that to Palandro, maybe he will understand. He was vaguely referring to Susskind's holographic universe, which as you pointed out does not suggest that we live in a computer program.
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If there were hope, but alas....
 
Mr Person said:
There is of course the separate theory that the universe is simulated....but I've never heard to it referred to with "hologram"...
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What I was referring to is a computer simulation managed with advanced AI software.

From what I can recall of the theoretical science back and forth, there is no way to disprove such a scenario.
 
Rogue Valley said:
What I was referring to is a computer simulation managed with advanced AI software.

From what I can recall of the theoretical science back and forth, there is no way to disprove such a scenario.
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Could such advanced software cause us to feel emotions and pain?
 
The cat passed the doorway twice, so I'm sure of it. I don't even have a cat. Why didn't I take the blue pill?
 
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