The Holographic Universe

Here's my first post on an actual topic... Its an interesting theory on our universe called the "Holographic Universe". This theory hypothesizes that the world, and the universe we live in, is some sort of super-hologram. Basically, the popular term for this is "The Matrix". Haha! Yup, the movie! The movie is quite far from what the theory actually is but I think if you've watched the movie you get the basic idea... This theory stems from recent scientific discoveries and quantum physics. So I wouldn't juz pass it off as some crackpot idea, at least till you've read a little more about it...

Anyway here's a quote from the article.

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.

Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.

Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.

University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.

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