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Evidence and Implications of a Holographic Universe
Posted By Brian J OMalley On January 27, 2009 (12:05 am) In News, Religion/Spirituality, Science
Detector Confirms Scientist’s Theory, Maybe the Nature of Universe
A gravitational wave detector in Hanover, Germany may have inadvertently found evidence supporting previous theories that the universe is essentially an enormous and highly detailed hologram.
The GEO600 was designed to be the world’s most sensitive detector of space-time ripples emanating from black holes and neutron stars, but it may have instead found minute convulsions of space-time that are characteristic of a holographic universe.
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| If correct, the universal hologram theory means every one of us is intimately connected to this tremendous beauty. It’s part of each of us. It’s our nature. Thank you NASA! |
Scientists working on the GEO600 project had been puzzling over interference patterns showing up in their experiments without any apparent source. Craig Hogan, Director of the Fermilabs Center for Particle Astrophysics, had predicted the laser-based detector might be sensitive enough to detect evidence of a holographic universe. When Karsten Danzann of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the University of Hanover forwarded the plot of noise the GEO600 team was detecting, it matched Hogan’s prediction exactly.
“If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is,” Hogan said in a recent article in New Scientist, “then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.”
What is a Hologram?
A manmade hologram is created when an object is completely illuminated by a laser beam. A second laser is bounced off the reflection of the first “reference beam” and the resulting interference pattern is recorded on film. The seemingly senseless pattern of light and dark lines on the film is then illuminated by a third laser to produce a three-dimensional image of the original object.
The most remarkable characteristic of a hologram is that it contains the “whole in every part.” In other words, if the film is cut in two pieces, each piece will produce a complete image of the original object, although it will be slightly fuzzier. Cut the film into four parts, and the same result appears. Four complete objects all slightly more fuzzy than the film cut into two pieces.
The whole in each part property has an equivalent in the DNA of the body. Each cell in a human being has the complete DNA sequence required to produce the entire body.
Moreover, the holographic universe model is a rather old idea first suggested by physicist David Bohm of the University of London. Bohm, a former protégé of Albert Einstein, suggested the idea in response to another strange set of results from an experiment in 1982 by physicist Alain Aspect at the University of Paris.
Entanglement
Aspect and his colleagues discovered that particles could communicate with each other regardless of the distance between them under certain circumstances. The intervening distance could be across the room or span galaxies, and still the particles would instantly know what was happening with the other and respond in kind. If the particles were spinning clockwise and one was forced to spin in the opposite direction, the corresponding particle would immediately change direction to match its counterpart.
This odd phenomenon dubbed “entanglement” was perplexing, because it seemed to violate the speed limit of the universe known as the speed of light. A signal traveling between the two particles could not possibly move faster than light, but it looked as if it was.
Bohm’s answer was that the appearance of distance was probably an illusion. Just like a fish in an aquarium being filmed by two cameras, one at its width side and one at its depth side, the fish appearing on two separate monitors are two aspects of the same thing. The particles, he argued, are still connected portions of the same thing - a deeper underlying unity in which all parts have the whole within it - a hologram.
If true, everything interpenetrates everything else in the entire universe. The electrons in the deepest microtubules of your brain are connected to the electrons emitted by stars millions of light years away. Space and time itself would essentially break down as an illusion or trick of the eyes.
Writer Michael Talbot combined Bohm’s idea with the work of a neurophysiologist Karl Pibram in his book Holographic Universe published by HarperCollins in 1991. The brain, according to Pibram, stores memories in the same way as a holographic film. The combination of the two ideas has astonishing implications for many aspects of life.
Holographic Brain
Scientist Karl Lashley discovered in the 1920’s that there wasn’t any specific location in the brain for memories. He did this by way of a gruesome set of experiments in which he taught a set of rats to run a maze. He then systematically removed sections of the brain in an effort to discover where memories might be stored in the tangle of neurons.
Regardless of which section of the brain was removed, the rats remembered the way through the maze. Although the rats might not solve the puzzle as quickly or be able to perform the physical movements as well, the memory was intact. The idea of non-localized memory storage remained a mystery until the 1960’s.
Pibram was working on non-localized memory when he came across the holographic photography principle. He then theorized that memory works in the same manner. Our recollections are not the result of retrieving information from a solid storage area like a library catalogue, but rather, it was encoded in the patterns of nerve impulses that criss-cross the brain in the same manner as the light interference patterns of a holographic film. Such a pattern would allow for the whole being in any part, and moreover, it would explain how recollections in brain injury patients get fuzzier or even harder to vocalize but wouldn’t eliminate the possibility that the memories are still there.
The implications didn’t stop there. The human brain can memorize the equivalent of about 10 billion bits of information, which translates to approximately five sets of an encyclopedia. How could so much information be stored in such a small space?
Experiments with holograms revealed their phenomenal ability to store information. By simply changing the angle at which the two lasers hit the film, multiple images can appear on the same film area. A cubic centimeter of film can hold the equivalent of the lifetime accumulation of knowledge in the human brain.
Amazing Implications
All of the above has amazing implications for our perception of reality. After all, when we gaze upon a sunset, we don’t actually see a sunset. What we see is a set of signals that are sent to the back of our brains, the visual cortex, that is then projected to our consciousness. The place where the beautiful hues of light are actually “seen” is in complete darkness. The concept of light is simply a mathematical interpretation of a brain in absolute obscurity.
Not very romantic, I know, but hang on. It gets better.
The human being may be nothing more than a television receiver floating through an endless sea of frequencies that we then translate into a sense of reality that is both shared and individualized to some respect. However, all must have the same ability to share, because the whole is affected by any part.
Further, there is reason to believe that the channels of perception are unlimited. It may be the prejudice of science at any given moment that what can be explained is the totality of all that is, but Bohm was very explicit about that. The assumption is simply the vanity of the day, and since quantum physics continues to find smaller and smaller particles every time they look, it’s reasonable to assume that human ability is equally unlimited.
Paranormal experiences would also be explainable. Just like electrons can know what the other is doing across infinite distances, so too could human beings know what others are thinking or doing, because the distance is an illusion and the connection is solid and without exception. There is no translating between minds, because we share in the same pool of consciousness at some infinitely small level. It’s only a different channel on the television set of mind.
Even more astounding is that reality may only be what we construct within our own minds. Each of us need only change the holographic image in our minds to directly affect our immediate experience. Magic may in fact be our inherent birthright.
Spiritual Meanings
The study of spirituality will also be affected if these finding turn out to be valid. Religion, it seems, had it right all along.
If we are connected as the studies suggest, the admonishments the Ten Commandments become common sense. It would be inherently harmful to self to do wrong to another. It would in effect change your own ability to create a peaceful hologram, and at some level, you would feel the effect of your own work.
Karma would not be meted out in a future life. It would be instantaneous and affect all of creation in profound ways.
Jesus’ statement, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do onto me,” would be quite literal.
In fact, it would mean that every thought and deed would affect not only the self, but also loved ones, friends and people unknown. All of creation.
So, Neo, don’t you wish you took the blue pill?
Article taken from Writer to the World - http://writertotheworld.com
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