Warning: This Might Make Your Head Asplode.
Darla Vladschyk
"Ready for my close-up, Professor Hawking!"
"...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."
Darla
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Adam Funk
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>
> "Ready for my close-up, Professor Hawking!"
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html?full=true&print=true
>
>
> "...For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their
> heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector.
Crickets in the space modulator.
> 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.
He must have read _Exterminator!_.
--
I spend almost as time figuring out what's wrong with my computer as
I do actually using it. Networked software, especially, requires
frequent updates and maintenance, all of which gets in the way of
doing routine work. (Stoll 1995)
Glenn Knickerbocker
>Crickets in the space modulator.
OM IS A HOLOGRAM!
madge
wrote:
> "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect
> it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."
>
> Darla
> Nova Scotia, Canada
Holograms are soooo Seventies. I think he meant to say "We are all living
in a closed loop Universal Social Networking Webservice" which is soooo
noughties. Click on My Friend button.
<flash>
+---------------+
| Click here to |
| join Madges |
| loopy Universe|
+---------------+
</flash>
Otto Bahn
>> "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect
>> it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."
>>
>> Darla
>> Nova Scotia, Canada
>
> Holograms are soooo Seventies. I think he meant to say "We are all living in a closed loop Universal Social Networking
> Webservice" which is soooo noughties. Click on My Friend button.
>
> <flash>
> +---------------+
> | Click here to |
> | join Madges |
> | loopy Universe|
> +---------------+
> </flash>
I wouldn't join any universe that would have me.
--oTTo-- <--- Existing without consent
Lots42
> 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."
>
> Darla
> Nova Scotia, Canada
If you tilt your head to the left, I am in a different action pose.
dearcilla
hologram, yet theorists have good reasons to believe that many aspects
of the holographic principle are true."
If NO ONE knows what it MEANS, it's not a scientific theory. It's word
salad.
Otto Bahn
>> Holograms are soooo Seventies. I think he meant to say "We are all living
>> in a closed loop Universal Social Networking Webservice" which is soooo
>> noughties. Click on My Friend button.
>
> I'm Clicking on My Friend RIGHT NOW IYKWIM!!!
I'm just clicking on a friend (doot doot-doot do-do)
--oTTo--
Bill Marcum
>
>
> 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."
>
just right...