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

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Andrew Grosso" <Agrosso () acm org>
Date: January 17, 2009 3:37:50 PM EST
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  Our world may be a giant hologram --  
scientifically inclined friends.  I give up.  What's goin' on here?  
DIGITAL!

Dave - The hologram theory was on the cover of Scientific America  
sometime ago.  Frankly, the concept that the real world has a  
particular form is a questionable.  The world appears to be a  
mathematical function concerning probabilities, and our nervous  
systems merely tools whereby we are concious of a very limited domain  
or range of that function.  Whether that function is a solid 3, 4, or  
11 dimensional world, a hologram, a collection of space-time grains,  
or none of the above, appears to be a question of formulation, not of  
reality. This doesn't mean that physics is futile - it means that we  
should study the function to learn how the universe operates and not  
expect to find more reality than that.  - Andy GrossoSent: Saturday,  
January 17, 2009 3:24 PM



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