Website review: The Amazing Holographic Universe
powerzip discovered this in Virtual Reality
•84 reviews since Feb 26, 2007
virtual-reality, science, physics
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powerzip discovered 17 months ago- In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science.
- KariFlack rated 8 weeks ago
- If this interests you in any way, I highly recommend The Book on The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts.
- tiberiandusk rated 5 months ago
- that fish tank analogy isn't exactly accurate. with the fish you are only observing one thing from a different angle. with subatomic particles we know we have 2 individual particles but both are linked to each other. its not like we're looking at the same particle in 2 different locations at once.
- huckle rated 5 months ago
- Fun to think about, dubious to believe.
- apolloeye rated 5 months ago
- wow!
- mystuff314 rated 5 months ago
- Summary anyone?
- Yatsu85 rated 7 months ago
- Incredibly interesting article. This is really why I'm interesting in science.
- CastorQuinn rated 8 months ago
- I have to get this out of the way before moving on:
They're not called "brain scientists". The field is not "brain science". It's neurology, or neurophysiology. This doesn't in any way undermine the rest of the article, but fields of science have very specific labels so that we know exactly what is being talked about, and not using them can lead to all sorts of confusion. As well as just sounding really dumb.
Okay, that aside, this is a very good read. With only a handful of exceptions, it is well written, well referenced, it presents the development and interrelation of the scientific principles and discoveries at play clearly, and it doesn't make many claims beyond those that the science/philosophy itself can logically encompass. So all in all, well written, fairly comprehensive, and informative. Thumbs up for that.
The meat of this is the holographic paradigm, a theory of cosmology or of reality, depending on whether you approach this from science or philosophy, that suggests existence is, essentially, fractal in the sense that any portion of it contains all the information present in the whole. From this follows a series of interesting scientific possibilities - such as an explanation of quantum entanglement as being one particle communicating with itself through the matrix of hologrammatic content (the article explains this pretty clearly, using some great analogies, so I'm not going to attempt to do so myself in this review - it'll make more sense when you read it). There are also interesting psychological implications, especially in relation to transpersonal psychology, a field of psychology which looks at the ways that consciousness can exist beyond the physical experience (and yes, while this is as New Age as it sounds, it's not completely dismissed by mainstream psychology, as there are several common and significant psychological issues which, regardless of their causes, present as transpersonal).
The one quibble I have with this article is that it goes on to propose that each individual is fundamentally linked to every other individual, object, phenomenon and experience throughout time and space, and that every individual also has the ability to shape the illusion of reality as he sees fit. This ignores the fact that a mass of observing intellects will force an agreed shape upon reality, that this reality will then shape the perceptions of the observers, into a sort of self-perpetuating reality. This is the logical extension of any philosophy of reality which holds that multiple individuals all perceive a single-state universe (such as the holographic paradigm does) - coopting it to support a "mother Gaia" inter-relatedness undermines the otherwise well-put argument in this article.
It still makes for a very interesting read. - I have to get this out of the way before moving on:
- SketchSepahi rated 8 months ago
- I'm in two minds on whether this deserves a thumbs up or a thumbs down. I gave it a thumbs up because it is inspiring to my imagination. I like thinking about these things. However, it really does deserve a thumbs down for being pseudo-scientific semi-religious bullshit with no basis in our current understanding of the universe save for those that will fit. It started off good and interesting but then it tapered down into this sort of New Age psychadelic crap about faith-healing, telepathy, LSD induced time-travel and only Horus knows what else. The holographic paradigm might help us explain para-psychological phenomena as for instance telepathy? Excuse me, since when has telepathy ever been scientifically verified? I'll tell you: never, that's when. It started out with a somewhat interesting interpretation of particle spin correlation, which for all its splendour is hardly scientifically falsifiable. Why do people feel the need to sully real knowledge with supernatural conjecture so? "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" ~Douglas Adams. This qoute is even more relevant considering the discoveries science is making in the field of quantum mechanics. Why, just the other day I read this article, which demonstrates the splendour of the fairy-less garden perfectly. We do not need holographic paradigms when we have such strange concepts as cutting edge physics expounds.
