Holographic Universe: Discovery Could Herald New Era In Fundamental Physics

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Craig Hogan, a physicist at Fermilab Centre for Particle Astrophysics in Illinois is convinced that he has found proof in the data of the gravitational wave detector GEO600 of a holographic Universe – and that his ideas could explain mysterious noise in the detector data that has not been explained so far.

The British-German team behind the GEO600, which includes scientists from the School of Physics and Astronomy's Gravitational Physics Group, will now carry out new experiments in the coming months to yield more evidence about Craig Hogan's assumptions. If proved correct, it could help in the quest to bring together quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of gravity.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203130708.htm


Holographic Principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle

[Peace Patriot]

1. Thanks for posting! With all the non-stop ferment in the physics world

and so many incredible advances, on every front, in understanding our universe (macro and micro), I get the feeling something BIG is about to break. I just hope we can handle it, here in our little holographic fractal of it ALL, Earth.

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2. It gets really hard to wrap my brain around sometimes,

but I love trying.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Yeah, it does feel that way, doesn't it? :^)

[FiveGoodMen]

4. And not long ago, some were claiming it was all over!

A little over six years ago (Note: written in '90s), I attended the twenty-fifth annual Nobel conference, the only program outside of Sweden and Norway sanctioned by the Nobel Foundation. It was entitled, "The End of Science?" John Horgan, senior writer for Scientific American, has recently written a book of the same name (Horgan 1996). The subject of both of these inquiries is not the impending solution of certain scientific problems, but the impending dissolution of science itself.

http://www.csicop.org/si/9703/end.html

[Peace Patriot]

5. Yeah, and some other asshole (so forgettable) wrote "The End of History"

not that long ago. That was before Bush-Cheney stole two elections and tried to re-start the Third Reich in the U.S.A., and before...

Hugo Chavez
Evo Morales
Rafael Correa
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
Lula da Silva
Fernando Lugo
Tabare Vasquez
Alvaro Colom
and
Daniel Ortega

all leftists, were elected presidents of their countries, in an awesome, peaceful, democratic, social justice revolution that has swept South America.

I'd say some history has been made since the New York Review of Books celebrated the end of it. They are always so behind the times.

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6. I just find it interesting what they are chasing. n/t