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so its possible that my penis might be bigger than it appears !
Smoke a bowl and ponder this for a while.... Whoa dude!
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...html?full=true
An excerpt from the article...
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."
The idea that we live in a hologram probably sounds absurd, but it is a natural extension of our best understanding of black holes, and something with a pretty firm theoretical footing. It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.
The holograms you find on credit cards and banknotes are etched on two-dimensional plastic films. When light bounces off them, it recreates the appearance of a 3D image. In the 1990s physicists Leonard Susskind and Nobel prizewinner Gerard 't Hooft suggested that the same principle might apply to the universe as a whole. Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.
The "holographic principle" challenges our sensibilities. It seems hard to believe that you woke up, brushed your teeth and are reading this article because of something happening on the boundary of the universe. No one knows what it would mean for us if we really do live in a hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects of the holographic principle are true.
Susskind and 't Hooft's remarkable idea was motivated by ground-breaking work on black holes by Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel and Stephen Hawking at the University of Cambridge. In the mid-1970s, Hawking showed that black holes are in fact not entirely "black" but instead slowly emit radiation, which causes them to evaporate and eventually disappear. This poses a puzzle, because Hawking radiation does not convey any information about the interior of a black hole. When the black hole has gone, all the information about the star that collapsed to form the black hole has vanished, which contradicts the widely affirmed principle that information cannot be destroyed. This is known as the black hole information paradox.
Bekenstein's work provided an important clue in resolving the paradox. He discovered that a black hole's entropy - which is synonymous with its information content - is proportional to the surface area of its event horizon. This is the theoretical surface that cloaks the black hole and marks the point of no return for infalling matter or light. Theorists have since shown that microscopic quantum ripples at the event horizon can encode the information inside the black hole, so there is no mysterious information loss as the black hole evaporates.
so its possible that my penis might be bigger than it appears !
No. It might not even exist.
I think you may be right.
bull ! I just felt it move
it's not yours just because it's in your mouth.
I can't help it if my wang is that long.
So he's Asian
No *wonder* I keep gaining weight, it's the fault of the damn hologram projector.
So we live in the Matrix?
buolsheit
Last edited by The Reckoning; 01-22-2009 at 02:32 PM.
no expensive machine needed, already introduced long time ago:
http://www.amazon.com/Holographic-Un.../dp/0060922583
Physics is depressing. The more I learn as a layman, the more I feel like an atomic machine with the illusion of consciousness.
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Physics is beautiful because it smacks us in the mouth with a lot of unanswered questions every time we think we've figured it out. Seriously, if you don't have sleepless nights trying to piece strange things together from reading your physics books, you've got the wrong ones.
Last edited by baseline bum; 01-22-2009 at 05:35 PM.
Don't tell me that you don't believe in physics either?
More like the Danger Room from the X-Men.
It's pretty amazing stuff. I wish I could wrap my mind around it a little better.
more like "Help me Obi Wan...."
I think they are completely misinterpreting the data.Don't tell me that you don't believe in physics either?
Well duh, doesn't everyone know this?
I don't think there's any way to interpret it correctly. You can only guess at what it means based on previously observed phenomena. The possibilities are fascinating though.
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