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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Sorry to double-post, but I did promise a comment. I'd like to express my delight at the mention of Douglas Adams regarding the almost absurd reference to mayonnaise, and its part in the quest to understand the universe. A prominent theme, and one that will likely always be present in all areas of science, is the incredulity that new ideas and theories are met with when they fail to fit perfectly the established methods and theories. It's nice to know that not all crazy scientists are relegated to the annals of forgotten ideas, otherwise we might not have anything like the level of understanding (however incomplete) that we have now of the universe in which we eke out our little lives. Of course, a certain level of scepticism is [i]not[/i] a bad thing - heard of the Joe Cell? I wonder how much (or how little, perhaps) will come to light as sensible from the vast volumes of crazy mumbo-jumbo floating around the world today - there has always been a thin line between 'outlandish' and 'wrong', and many theories proved by experimentation today were dismissed not so long ago. As the pieces out of which the universe is made get smaller and smaller, it seems that theory moves ever more into realms we will eventually lack even the projected ability to observe or prove, but again, it wasn't so long ago that the theorised neutrino was considered to be unprovable and unobservable. Now even quarks aren't the smallest thing any more, and the smallest theorised unit of space-time seems well beyond any known means to detect... but what if all we see and observe in reality is in fact just a projection of interactions on some other level of the unseen universe? What if the apparent universe is just the observable result of interactions on some other plane of the unseen universe? Theories of a holographic reality aren't new, but it seems that certain aspects are gradually being accepted as plausible. The whole idea seems outlandish, yet could be used to explain, for instance, the seemingly impossible phenomena of entangled particles - the reason two particles at two distinct points in space may exhibit some way of 'knowing' the state of one another might simply be that they do not exist as separate entities at all, but as observations of the same phenomenon from different angles, in a way, within a holographic universe. [url=http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html]Talbot's musings.[/url] [url=http://keelynet.com/biology/reality.htm]Extensions of a theme.[/url] This also offers up the compelling possibility that as a projection, the universe may actually be blurry; reality may be 'grainier' than the theorised particles that constitute it. Physicist Craig Hogan postulated just such a thing, and possibly even the means by which to observe this graininess - or more accurately, what observable effect this graininess might have in practical experiments. The following by no means proves anything, but the fact that postulated and observed effects coincide is something I find rather exciting: [url=http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true]Gravitational wave detector / inexplicable interference...[/url] This is just a little snippet of the sort of things that keep me awake at night. Honestly, I don't understand it all (as I'm sure is quite normal for the average person) but that doesn't stop me being compelled to read, and read, and read, in the vain hope that some of it might become clearer. I have long been obsessed with the seemingly insubstantial nature of reality, and it saddens me that I don't have a greater capacity to understand - I'm no theoretical physicist. It saddens me more that despite so many recent discoveries and advances in science and technology, even if I were to live many times longer than a single lifespan, much will still be un-knowable. Heck, if I lived forever it would still be impossible to know and understand everything there is to discover in our universe. In the grand scheme of things, our little lives are full of greater worries than whether or not this is all real, so I try not to let it drive me mad. Still, if I could find a bug somewhere in the matrix, perhaps I could hack reality and give myself super powers! :D [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4663]White Hawk[/url] on 04-05-2009 17:50)[/small] Loading...
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