As science meets science fiction ...
At NYC science festival, the question is, 'What if we're holograms?' AP - June 2, 2010
Brian Greene works in a world where scientific reasoning rules all and imagination leads to the most unlikely truths. Greene and other
It's a concept so mind bending for those who don't understand the complex math behind it that many might decide it's best left to the academics. But Greene wants to build public excitement about science, even as the U.S. loses ground in some areas - and intends to bring even the most complex ideas to the masses at this week's World Science Festival, which starts June 2.
The physicist founded the festival in 2008 with his wife, Tracy Day. It's an extension of his work translating into layman's terms the fundamentals of string theory - the idea that the universe and its most fundamental forces could be best explained if everything around us were made up of minuscule, vibrating strings. Greene's attempt to explain where our consciousness might reside, if we are indeed simply projections, is intriguing and perhaps less than comforting:
Consciousness is just another interaction of particles."
