Our world may be a giant hologram

[The Helper]

DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.

For the past seven years, this German set-up has been looking for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time thrown off by super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes. GEO600 has not detected any gravitational waves so far, but it might inadvertently have made the most important discovery in physics for half a century.

For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

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[cdproducers]

hope the power doesnt go out ^^

[Squirt]

The Matrix ?

[Tasdik]

Luls.

[Crowley]

then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.

orly?

[brentonsbbe359]

The Matrix ?

woot woot

[Tasdik]

I call being Neo.

[[TS]=Hark=[TS]]

DAM!! mabey i really do like mushrooms then... lol!

[brentonsbbe359]

I call being Neo.

DAMN YOU ><
I wanted to be Neo! ><
Mr. Smith..... O.o

[poehalcho]

...it makes no difference...
we have to 'live' our lives just like we usually would. we can't change it. we might as well ignore it. (imo)

[AznFury]

Morpheus ftw.

[rumpleKillskin]

If we are in a hologram, then what is the true reality? I mean if im understanding this correctly, everything that is around us is fake, something that isn't really "there." So what are they getting at, that reality as we know it is false?

Explain.

[iGod]

I'm surprised that so many people don't really know what a hologram is lol

This isn't about star wars/trek

[Tasdik]

I'm surprised that so many people don't really know what a hologram is lol

This isn't about star wars/trek/Matrix

Fixed.

It'd be a hella of a lot more interesting if it was.

[Reise]

I still can't see how physical dimensions fit in the equation.

[XemnasXD]

Ugh, physics...i read the whole article but it seems like more theory than discovery of anything significant...a theory about a theory really...