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a reply to: The GUT
How utterly cool and durn fascinating. Any idea on who's running the projector?
originally posted by: Davg80
ive got another question since nobody answered my last question, since an atom is mostly space, do electrons and protons buzz around the nucleus at such a speed that it creates the illusion of the thing it is possible programmed to be, and if the atom had a powercut (analogy) would the thing (lets say the atoms that make up a car) would it appear to disappear.
or what if atoms were conscious.... and they are f@@@@@@ with us.... that could explain all phenomenon!
if atoms were conscious.... and they are f@@@@@@ with us.... that could explain all phenomenon!
originally posted by: Emerys
What if all this goes back to proving God. More specifically the theories of Alan Watts who stated we are all God, just living infinite lives and adventures forever and ever. I mean think about it. If you were God and could create the ultimate video game experience to keep yourself from being bored, wouldn't you create the most elaborate and real experience so that you would forget you were a God?And you set up certain rules in your games to make it difficult. And just like in a video game,when you die, you get a new life.
originally posted by: s3cz0ne
originally posted by: The GUT
How utterly cool and durn fascinating. Any idea on who's running the projector?
Howdy, Brudda.
The Annunaki of course.... Or wait.. Maybe the Illuminati. Or are they also part of the hologram?
Meh, this makes my brain hurt and feel mushy.
On a more serious note; very interesting hypothesis. Quantum physics never ceases to amaze, though that may be largely due to my utter lack of comprehension.
No. He said that he thinks the liklihood may be very high but he has no actually evidence for it. What does he have? A tongue firmly in cheek. Here is the full context of his statement.
Neil deGrasse Tyson says it’s ‘very likely’ the universe is a simulation
www.amnh.org...
>>NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: I think the likelihood may be very high. And my evidence for it is just it’s a thought experiment, and it’s simple. We’ll just end with this reflection—and I’m elsewhere like on YouTube saying this, so you can check it out later, if you choose. I just think when I look at what we measure to be our own intelligence, and we tend to think highly of it, getting back to Jim’s point, there’s a certain hubris just even in how we think about our relationship to the world. And that’s understandable perhaps, even in the search for intelligent life in the universe. It comes with the assumption that we’ll find life that also thinks we are intelligent. Well, if we look at other life forms on earth with whom we have DNA in common, there is none that we would rank ever in the history of the fossil record, or life thriving today, that we would rank with us and our level of intelligence. So, given our definitions, we’re the only intelligent species there ever was because we have poetry and philosophy and music and art. And then I thought to myself, well, if the chimpanzee has 98-whatever percent identical DNA to us—pick any animal. It doesn’t matter. Dogs, it doesn’t matter. Mammals have very close DNA to us. They cannot do trigonometry. Some people can’t do trigonometry. Certainly not these animals. So, if they cannot do trigonometry, and they have such close genetic identity to us, let’s take that same gap and put it beyond us and find some life form that is that much beyond us that we are beyond the dog or the chimp. What would we look like to them? We would be drooling, blithering idiots in their presence. The smartest chimp can do maybe some sign language and stack boxes and reach a banana, put up an umbrella, like our toddlers can do. Our toddlers do that. So, maybe the smartest human—bring Stephen Hawking forward in front of this other species, and they’re chuckling because they’ll say, oh, this happens to be the smartest human because he’s slightly smarter than the rest because he can do astrophysics calculations in his head, like little Timmy over here.
[laughter]
Oh, you’re back from preschool? Oh, you’ve just composed a symphony. That’s so—let’s put it on the refrigerator door. We just derived all the principles of—oh, that’s cute. And so that is not a stretch to think about. And if that’s the case, it is easy for me to imagine that everything in our lives is just the creation of some other entity for their entertainment. It is easy for me to think that. So, whatever the likelihood is: zero percent, 1 percent, 17, 42, no answer, I’m saying the day we learn that it is true I will be the only one in the room saying I’m not surprised. Thank you all for coming tonight, and thank the panel.
originally posted by: 0bserver1
Something that's being discussed for years now.Could new findings about time crystals be the key to unfold that we are living in a hologram.
originally posted by: Phage
BTW, the holographic Universe hypothesis is not the same as the simulated Universe hypothesis.
originally posted by: Davg80
a reply to: Phage
What defines smart in relation to species or insect.....
i remember watching a documentary about ants and how they seemed share a consciousness and how they could adapt to a dangerous situation like a flood, for example, they all join together so they are essentially a raft, every ant knows what they are doing and has a job that goes to helping them all as a collective.
i wish humans were that smart.
thinking you're a Star Trek "hologram" is how it tends to be interpreted by journalists.
originally posted by: Box of Rain
Instead the "projection" of our universe could be just the real way our universe manifests itself to us. It could simply be the way the universe naturally exists.
originally posted by: wildespace
originally posted by: Box of Rain
...How does the Holographic universe "store" and project information like that?
No matter how I look at the universe or how it might work, all I see is the physical reality that happens right here and right now, with countless possibilities and random factors or choices. Nothing predetermined. No information projected from somewhere else.
originally posted by: Box of Rain
The idea that a bunch of particles set in motion at the time of creation of a conventional 3D universe bumping into each other in such a way can result in you running across a busy street to get run over by a car
originally posted by: wildespace
originally posted by: Box of Rain
The idea that a bunch of particles set in motion at the time of creation of a conventional 3D universe bumping into each other in such a way can result in you running across a busy street to get run over by a car
I think you missed the point here. That primordial streaming and bumping of particles that created the Milky Way galaxy / Solar System / Earth / me, are in no way instrumental or even influential, towards the course of events that would, or could, happen. Ergo, there is no "information" written somewhere that is projected to create the physical realitity that we experience day to day.
The universe is one big chaos where local events get self-ordered and self-organised to cause things become into being: www.dailymotion.com...
Seriously, this hypothetical idea of all the stuff in our universe being really 2 dimensions is such a foreign concept to us (like the 2D denizens of Edwin Abbott's "Flatland" trying to understand the concept of 3D) that i'm not sure if we could adequately describe how 2 dimensions of information could result in an apparent 3D me running into and apparent 3D street to get hit by an apparent 3D car.