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

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Note, I dont think they claimed to originate the idea but to have  
maybe confirmed it  djf


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From: "Ed Gerck, Ph.D." <egerck () nma com>
Date: January 17, 2009 1:35:05 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Our world may be a giant hologram -- scientifically  
inclined friends.  I give up.  What's goin' on here?


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

From <http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true 
>:

The holograms <http://science.howstuffworks.com/hologram.htm> you find  
on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic  
films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a  
3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel  
prizewinner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might  
apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself  
be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a  
distant, 2D [could also be other- or a-dimensional] surface.

Best regards,
Ed Gerck

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<www.gerck.com>




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