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Holographic universe and consciousnessHolographic universe and consciousnessHologram revolution Jessica Griggs New Scientist, 16 July 2011 This article develops the idea that the universe is really two dimensional, and that the third spatial dimension that we are aware of is analogous to a hologram. The idea may have originated in the physics of black holes. The entropy of a black hole is proportionate not to its volume but to the area of the event horizon. This is troubling to some physicists, because it suggests that information is lost when three dimensional objects fall into a black. In this article, the author draws on calculations related to a version of string theory. A two dimensional universe would greatly simplify a number of problems in physics such as understanding the relationship between the quarks, the fundamental quanta making up the protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom, and the gluons which intermediate the strong nuclear force and thus bind the nucleus together. A theory based on the gluons and the strong force is seen as a possible alternative to the Higgs boson as a way of endowing particles with mass. From the point of view of consciousness studies, it is not vital as to whether the universe has two or three spatial dimensions. The point is that a two dimensional universe is considered a feasible concept to mainstream physicists. This in its turn is a useful way of emphasising that the three/four dimensional world that we subjectively experience is a brain state there bears little resemblance to an external world comprised of little waves of energy oscillating in the vacuum. As argued on this site before, it is probably more useful to think of the relationship between brain states and the external world as analogous to the paper map of a city’s metro system, which is useful for survival in the city but is nothing like the steel and concrete of the thing it maps. |
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