Our world may be a giant hologram -- scientifically inclined friends. I give up. What's goin' on here?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: bobr () bobrosenberg phoenix az us
Date: January 17, 2009 11:41:03 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: NewScientist - Our world may be a giant hologram

Hi Dave

Perhaps for I.P.

"According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle  
physics lab in
Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of  
space-time -
the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum  
Einstein
described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper  
photograph
dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being  
buffeted by the
microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

"If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been  
appointed
director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even  
bigger shock in
store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all  
living in a
giant cosmic hologram.""


O.K. my scientifically inclined friends.  I give up.  What's goin' on  
here?

Cheers,
Bob

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html

Our world may be a giant hologram

   * 15 January 2009 by Marcus Chown
   * Magazine issue 2691.

DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to  
miss the
GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the  
corner of a field
stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long  
trenches
emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron.  
Underneath the
metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.

For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for  
gravitational
waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical  
objects such as
neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any  
gravitational waves so
far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery  
in physics
for half a century.

[snip]








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