We're all living in a giant cosmic hologram
The GEO600 may have inadvertently discovered that "we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram." That, according to Craig Hogan, the director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics.
GEO600 is a gravity wave detector in Germany hasn't had much success in finding gravitational waves -- but it has been having a lot of problems with noise -- noise that Craig Hogan may have independently predicted. Hogan thinks that the noise GEO600 has detected can be explained as microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time -- which is the limit of the space-time continuum described by Einstein.
The physics behind the suggestion that the universe may be a holographic image is complex, to say the least. However, it's exactly what you think. The suggestion is that the universe is like a 3-dimensional holographic projection from a 2-dimensional surface. The suggestion comes from theoretical work done on black holes, to explain the black hole information paradox -- and supported by some string theory work.
It is very early to say the noise that GEO600 is experiencing is evidence for a holographic universe, but the idea is intriguing. It makes my head spin just thinking about it.
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