Has anyone else ever heard about the theory that everything is...?

Question

just a part of a big hologram? This theory basically reinforces the idea that everything, although separate, is part of the same whole, Everything is one, Anyone believe that or have better theories in mind??

Answer 1

Philosopher Descartes had the same problem, how do we know the devil isn't just deceiving us about what we see/hear/taste/smell? How do we know we're not just some spirit dreaming we're a human?

He was so skeptic that he threw out all human knowledge, nothing could be known for sure. Except, "I think, therefore I am." The only conclusion he could come to is that he exists.

Eventually he realized this skepticism is worthless, even if it was true there's nothing that could be done about it. The senses are trustworthy enough. I'll say the same to you. So what if life could be a hologram? I'll risk it and keep living the way I'm living.

Answer 2

You are absolutely correct, in my opinion. Now, I'm not saying that everything that exists in our conscious realm is a hologram, though it very likely is. This hologram isn't exactly the same as that created by laser beams, but is similar in principle.

See: The Holographic Universe

http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.h...

Because of the way that our universe unfolded after the big-bang and the way that life evolved there after, it is not possible for life to sense the true nature of the universe and "everything" in it.  What we sense on a conscious level is just an overlay of the true magnificence of the universe, its space-time fabric. As a result, however, there are specific patterns in the nature of our reality that links our conscious sense back to the time of the singularity and the big-bang.  We discover the laws of physics, classical physics, which describe how our reality works on the larger "slower" energy scale. It requires quantum physics (quantum mechanics and wave theory) to understand how the "patterns" in our conscious nature links back to the singularity by way of energy, entropy, gravity, mass, matter, and time.

A Quantum Mechanical Model of Evolution and Consciousness

http://www.secamlocal.ex.ac.uk/people/st...

Big Bang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang

Most every dynamic system that operate in our reality does so as some function of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. This is a major component of the "patterns" within our realm that connects us and everything else to the singularity, in my opinion. In order to know what to look for in these patterns, one must have at least a passing understanding of particle physics, cosmology, and quantum mecanics.

Uncertainty Principle

http://www.thebigview.com/spacetime/unce...

I do believe that if, for some unknown reason, if all particles of matter and energy should suddenly speed up to the speed of light, the universe as a whole, would revert back to conditions just prior to the big-bang.

  

Answer 3

Yes, this is known as the "Holographic Principal". I've just finished readning Stephan Hawking's, "A Brief History of Time", and it discusses the holographic principal to an extent... its a tricky idea to understand, but then again, so are most ideas in the field of astrophysics.

I personally, have heard much better theories and ideas than the holographic principal. In all honesty, I think its a very shallow attempt to explain things in our universe and I don't agree with it at all. I simply can't go for the basic idea that the universe is a hologram. Its an interesting idea, but it really doesn't work for me.

Answer 4

This tends to be a better question in philosophy, and not astronomy.

If the universe is a perfect illusion ala The Matrix, then no amount of measuring or prodding from within the simulation could detect its existence.

The philosophical next step is - isn't it then real anyway, even if simulated? If Mr. Jones is born in the matrix, lives in the matrix, and dies in the matrix, does it matter that his "real" body was hooked into feeding tubes and sensory I/O cables, while being leeched of its heat by some vaguely amniotic-looking fluid around him? Not to his mind.....

So the question becomes irrelevant if we're unable to interact with / detect the "outer" reality, and especially if our actions within "the matrix" have no effect on the outer reality.....

So scientists simply study what's real, even if it's fake.

I don't think we're in a computer, but I do believe that there's a superset to the universe that we can't easily detect, but detecting and understanding it might just help us crack these pesky problems such as energy and space travel.

Answer 5

I've heard of it.  But it's more a way of visualizing the idea that particles can have macroscopic features.  For example, the double slit experiment.

Let's say you have a plate with a slit, with a detector on a surface behind it.  This could be film or a CCD on a flat plate.  You shine a light at it.  You get a characteristic smooth diffraction pattern.

Now replace the slit plate with a double slit plate.  You get a characteristic interference pattern - kind of wavy - where photons going through one slit either add or subtract from photons going through the other.  A ha!, you say, light behaves like waves.  But then you adjust the energy available to the light so that there's only enough for one photon at a time.  In time, you accumulate an image, but one photon at a time.  And you still get the interference pattern, even though each photon had to go through one slit or the other.  So how did each photon "know" that there was another slit?  It's not big enough to have gone through both slits!

And this is the kind of thing that the hologram model is supposed to address.  However, i've not heard of any new predictions or math associated with this idea.  Without that, it's not so much a theory or even hypothesis, but an analogy.

Answer 6

the problem is that this isn't a scientific theory, because there is no evidence supporting it, heck this claim isn't even testable much less falsifiable.

Answer 7

I think that's the point of the book "The Holographic Universe" by Michael Talbot.  I have it here but I're only read part of it.  A lot of it actually goes into what we think of as paranormal phenomenon.

It certainly seems that everything is connected on some level that we can't see.  Quantum entanglement, for example.  Entanged particles are affected instantaneously by their twin that could be light years away.  Brian Greene explains those effects in "The Fabric of the Cosmos", but doesn't attempt to theorize why.

Answer 8

Its not a real theory. Its a movie plot. See the Matrix.