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When Mongo Hurt...Mongo Get Smart: So after watching
Samurai Champloo I watched a Documentary on PBS:
Fabric of the Cosmos: Holographic Universe. The show was very informative, though a bit boring (PBS is taking a hit in this economy)--the topic however is close to my heart and imagination. Modern physics is leading us closer and closer to the conclusion that our universe is indeed a hologram.
Dr. Leonard Susskind in a long standing "fight" with Professor Stephen Hawking over the nature of matter entering a black hole...Hawking said matter vanishes when entering a black hole which goes against all the laws of physics to date and Susskind said it did not and could not just "vanish" that even black holes obeyed physics... (I am a novice at this so if I am butchering it I apologize. watch the video link for the best of the battle!). Susskind was right. He discovered that the event horizon around a black hole stores the information of the object dropping into the black hole holographically so the object does indeed enter the black hole but its information "it's digital 1's and 0's" is stored thus not just vanishing. And he went on to surmise (though the theorem is not originally his) that the Universe itself could in fact be just a 4-d holographic projection of a 3-D boundary somewhere at the edge of the universe. This conclusion makes the Super String Theory of the Universe much easier to swallow and explains why some sub atomic particles, despite their distance apart, seem to be able to be able to "communicate" with each other. It is not because they have some magic telepathy but are infact, like a hologram, pieces of the same whole. Yes, it is like our universe is a computer program (like in the Matrix) where its information is what defines it more than its mass and volume...they are illusionary.
Anyway, a very fascinating time in Quantum Physics and String Theory indeed. If it helps...(for non-physicists like me) When you look into a mirror, it looks real, the Universe could be much the same way. And if you weren't here to view it it would not exist...or you wouldn't...or you are the mirror and the image and the viewer. Just ask Alice when she's ten feet tall. Below are some interesting links to play with. But explore yourself. The beauty of the web is that you can have instant access to the highest end theorems of the day
(Mongo say you also can get a lot of videos of cute cats).
SUSSKIND vs. Hawking
Nova: The Fabric of the Cosmos
