Re: [Vo]:Detecting the Holographic Blurriness of Space-Time
Terry sez: Our World Might be a Giant Hologram http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html 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. For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. 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. more Warning. You only have 60 seconds left to insert another quarter before disconnection. Make sure your mantra is current. Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
Re: [Vo]:Detecting the Holographic Blurriness of Space-Time
For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. snip... Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. snip prophecy in science... dissolves into dots as you zoom in. It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time, says Hogan. Is this why my shock absorbers are buffeted when I drive down Niagara Falls Blvd.? Or is that just the potholes? 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. Wow. We hear some noise between 300-1500cps, and that means the universe is a hologram. Planck sized nougaty bite-size bits on a pringle-shaped universe of some kind. Can I get some quantum foam atop my Guiness? There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -- Mark Twain Cheers, --Kyle
Re: [Vo]:Detecting the Holographic Blurriness of Space-Time
Kyle McAllister wrote: For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. snip...Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. snip prophecy in science... dissolves into dots as you zoom in. It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time, says Hogan. Is this why my shock absorbers are buffeted when I drive down Niagara Falls Blvd.? Or is that just the potholes? No, but I think that it is related to quantum vacuum fluxiations. 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. Wow. We hear some noise between 300-1500cps, and thatn means the universe is a hologram. One of my physics tutors, was Frank Meyer, Emeritus Professor from the University of Wisconsin system. He was the president of the group that advocates Dewey B Larson's Reciprocal System. He told me the physical universe was flashing off and on, like a strobe light. A Canadian researcher published high speed photographs showing a phenomena called Bosivert Gaps. When I mentioned them to Frank, he was vindicated. I read a similar story in the book, Holographic Universe. BTW, Puthoff's research is mentioned several times in the book. Perhaps Hoyt Sterns will comment about Reciprocity. Planck sized nougaty bite-size bits on a pringle-shaped universe of some kind. Can I get some quantum foam atop my Guiness? There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. -- Mark Twain C to C AM regularly has guests on who are theoretical physicists, Micho Kaku being a classic case in point. Given some of his ideas, which IMHO, would be great grist for an edition of Analog or Amazing Stories, I question his having either foot on the ground. Applied physicists, Hal Puthoff being a case in point is grounded in the reality of producing changes in the physical world. OTOH, if that's just a hologram, then anything should be possible. Hum, why am I having such a difficult time getting money? --- Get FREE High Speed Internet from USFamily.Net! -- http://www.usfamily.net/mkt-freepromo.html ---
