October 28, 2010
I have always aligned with the theory of the Holographic Universe - Reality as a hologram in which we experience then return to light and consciousness. The Universe is a University and we are part of a bio-genetic experiment in linear time and emotions - a science experiment if you will. Today we find this story that may prove something or nothing. At the very least, the idea of reality as a hologram is in the grid consciousness of our evolving experiment.
Many ideas in theoretical physics involve extra dimensions, but the possibility that the universe has only two dimensions could also have surprising implications. The idea is that space on the ultra-small Planck scale is two-dimensional, and the third dimension is inextricably linked with time. If this is the case, then our three-dimensional universe is nothing more than a hologram of a two-dimensional universe.
This idea of the holographic universe is not new, but physicists at Fermilab are now designing an experiment to test the idea. Fermilab particle astrophysicist Craig Hogan and others are building a holographic interferometer, or holometer, in an attempt to detect the noise inherent in space-time, which would reveal the ultimate maximum frequency limit imposed by nature. As Hogan explains in a recent issue of Fermilab's symmetry magazine, the holometer will be the most sensitive measurement ever made of space-time itself. Hogan and others have already built a one-meter-long prototype of the instrument. They have just begun building the entire 40-meter-long holometer and plan to start collecting data next year.
If time is part of the hologram (illusion), then one person's deduction of 5 billion years, and another of 2 years or 2012 - both mean the same thing - for in the end, everything ceases to exist simultaneously. The image below of the Cat's Eye Nebula represents above and below converging in the eye of time.
