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Παρασκευή 30 Ιουνίου 2017

Japan Tsunami Caught On Tape | BBC Natural Disasters & Weather Documenta...

           



Japan Tsunami Caught On Tape | BBC Natural Disasters & Weather Documenta...

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Monstrous Tsunami in Kesennuma - Final compilation

    

Monstrous Tsunami in Kesennuma - Final compilation

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 7 Απρ 2017
Monstrous Tsunami in Kesennuma - Final compilation

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ANAΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ YOUTUBE 1/7/2017

Scale of the TSUNAMI Power - Educating Document

         

Scale of the TSUNAMI Power - Educating Document

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 28 Ιαν 2017

scale of the TSUNAMI power - complete video

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Giant wall of water hit town of NODA - Tsunami Japan 2011

         

Giant wall of water hit town of NODA - Tsunami Japan 2011

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 22 Μαρ 2014

Wall of water hit town Japan 2011.NODA - Tsunami

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How Big do Tsunamis Get?

             



How Big do Tsunamis Get?

ANAΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ YOUTUBE 1/7/2017

Why does the Universe keep expanding?




Why does the Universe keep expanding?

VIKTOR T.TOTH  , PRO PART TIME PHYSISIST

The universe was born in a state of flying apart.
This flying apart continues unless something stops it.
The only something that we know of with the power of stopping the expansion is gravity. If the universe contained enough matter for matter’s self-gravity to bring the expansion to a halt, the expansion would stop.
But the universe does not have enough matter for this. So the expansion continues.

Τετάρτη 28 Ιουνίου 2017

Tι κρατά τους πλανήτες και τους δορυφόρους στην τροχιά;



Tι κρατά τους πλανήτες και τους δορυφόρους σε τροχιά;



Όταν ένας πλανήτης περιστρέφεται γύρω από ένα αστέρι ή ένας δορυφόρος περιστρέφεται γύρω από τη Γη, η τροχιακή κίνηση μπορεί να συνεχιστεί για πολύ μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα, εκτός και αν η τροχιά διακόπτεται από μια εξωτερική δύναμη. Για ένα δορυφόρο της Γης, οι υψηλότερες τροχιές συνήθως διαρκούν περισσότερο από τις χαμηλότερες, επειδή, πιο κοντά στη Γη, οι δυνάμεις αντίστασης της ατμόσφαιρας ασκούνται συνεχώς στο δορυφόρο. Αυτές απομακρύνουν την ενέργεια από τον δορυφόρο, και τον οδηγούν σε ολοένα χαμηλότερες τροχιές προοδευτικά και τελικά να τον οδηγούν να καταρρεύσει στη Γη.

Negative Mass and Paradoxical Enderchests :: Footnote 3 :: Belief based ...

       

Negative Mass and Paradoxical Enderchests :: Footnote 3 :: Belief based ...

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 9 Νοε 2014

Steve
only sees the items he believes are in the enderchest but doesn't this
sound a lot like the law of attraction? No. The way I envisioned the
enderchest working isn't the same as the way the law of attraction is
supposed to work. Find out the differences here!

P.S. I do not mean to bash any Christians here. Confirmation bias has been used on multiple other occasions.

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Negative Mass and Paradoxical Enderchests :: Footnote 2 :: Multiple Infi...

         

Negative Mass and Paradoxical Enderchests :: Footnote 2 :: Multiple Infi...

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 7 Νοε 2014
Is m=∞ a solution to the equation ∞m=m? No, but why? In this video we see why m=0 and not infinity.
ANAΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ  YOUTUBE 28/6/2017

Negative Mass and Paradoxical Enderchests :: FootNote1 :: Addressing Fal...

          

Negative Mass and Paradoxical Enderchests :: FootNote1 :: Addressing Fal.

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 3 Νοε 2014
A
refinement to my original theory, now the enderchest itself has mass
but only the contents are massless. The mass of the enderchest results
in the enderchest falling and activating pressure plates.

I hope you all enjoyed the last video as much as I enjoyed making it!



ANAΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ YOUTUBE 28/6/2017


Negative Mass and Paradoxical Enderchests

       



Negative Mass and Paradoxical Enderchests



ΑΝΑΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ YOUTUBE 28/6/2017

Are we dealing with Negative Mass

       

Are we dealing with Negative Mass

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 31 Μαΐ 2017

Imagining what universes with negative mass and the implications

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Negative Mass

            

Negative Mass

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 21 Ιουλ 2015
Exploring the strange consequences of gravity and negative masses.

Gravity and Negative Matter and Negative Energy

     



Gravity and Negative Matter and Negative Energy

ANAΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ  YOUTUBE 28/06/2017

Space Weather, Cosmic Giants, NSWEF | S0 News June.28.2017

             

Space Weather, Cosmic Giants, NSWEF | S0 News June.28.2017



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Τρίτη 27 Ιουνίου 2017

Κυριακή 25 Ιουνίου 2017

why the photons are massless?



why the photons are massless?

The photon is the gauge boson of an unbroken gauge symmetry (the U(1) symmetry of the electromagnetic interactions). As such, it is exactly massless: there is no way to add a mass term for the photon to the Lagrangian describing electromagnetism without breaking the gauge symmetry. This is the same reason why the gauge bosons of the strong nuclear force, the gluons, are massless. They are gauge bosons of an intact SU(3) symmetry.

As others have noted, all experimental evidence is consistent with the photon's being exactly massless. As a quick mnemonic, photons from the farthest reaches of the universe come to our telescopes. This points to the electromagnetic force as having an infinite range (corresponding to zero mass for the photon).

Inside a superconductor, due to local interactions within the material, the U(1) symmetry is broken, leading the photon to behave as if it has a mass (the Meissner effect).
 
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Πέμπτη 22 Ιουνίου 2017

Gravitational Waves (extra footage)

    

Gravitational Waves (extra footage)

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 22 Απρ 2016

Main video: https://youtu.be/hIgZG7A1fqc
Discussed by Ed Copeland and Mike Merrifield.
More on Black Holes from Sixty Symbols: http://bit.ly/Black_Hole_Videos
LIGO: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu

Gravitational Waves Discovery - Sixty Symbols

             

Gravitational Waves Discovery - Sixty Symbols

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 21 Απρ 2016

Discussed by Ed Copeland and Mike Merrifield.
Extra footage from these interviews: https://youtu.be/2uYEayOBj1k
More on Black Holes from Sixty Symbols: http://bit.ly/Black_Hole_Videos
LIGO: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu
Cool Black Hole simulations and info: http://www.black-holes.org

LHC visit: http://bit.ly/LHCvideos

Visit our website at http://www.sixtysymbols.com/
We're on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/sixtysymbols
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This project features scientists from The University of Nottingham
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Sixty Symbols videos by Brady Haran
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The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

          

The Absurdity of Detecting Gravitational Waves

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 5 Ιαν 2017

A head-vaporizing laser with a perfect wavelength detecting sub-proton space-time ripples.
Huge thanks to Prof Rana Adhikari and LIGO: http://ligo.org
Here's how he felt when he learned about the first ever detection: https://youtu.be/ViMnGgn87dg

Thanks to Patreon supporters:
Nathan Hansen, Donal Botkin, Tony Fadell, Saeed Alghamdi, Zach Mueller, Ron Neal
Support Veritasium on Patreon: http://bit.ly/VePatreon

A
lot of videos have covered the general overview of the discovery of
gravitational waves, what they are, the history of the search, when they
were found but I wanted to delve into the absurd science that made the
detection possible.

When scientists want one megawatt of laser
power, it's not just for fun (though I'm sure it's that too), it's
because the fluctuations in the number of photons is proportional to
their square root, making more powerful beams less noisy (as a fraction
of their total). The smoothest mirrors were created not for aesthetic
joy but because when you're trying to measure wiggles that are a
fraction the width of a proton, a rough mirror surface simply won't do.

Filmed by Daniel Joseph Files

Music by Kevin MacLeod, http://www.incompetech.com "Black Vortex" (appropriately named)

Music licensed from Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com "Observations 2" (also appropriately named)
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Quantum Physics 101 - Double Slit Experiment

           

Quantum Physics 101 - Double Slit Experiment

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 9 Μαρ 2012

(Revised
version from March 4th 2012) This video starts out explaining the
basics regarding the double slit experiment, then it goes into detail
regarding the setup and results of the delayed choice quantum eraser
experiment with its rather strange results. The measurement data of this
experiment implies that information obviously travelled backwards in
time, which violates known scientific principles regarding causality and
time.

Finally it provides an explaination for these strange
results based on the My Big Toe model of physicist Thomas Campbell who
claims that we are living in a virtual reality and that reality as we
know it is based on information and created from this information as any
other virtual reality simulation on a computer.

Most of the the content presented in this video is also available in written form at this link :

http://www.matrixwissen.de/index.php?...


Tom's Youtube channel is : http://www.youtube.com/twcjr44

Tom's website is : http://www.my-big-toe.com

Tom's book is available here : http://books.google.com/books?id=RYHt...

This video was created by : http://www.matrixwissen.de/index.php?...
ANAΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ YOUTUBE 23/6/2017

Explained ! The Double Slit Experiment

           



Explained ! The Double Slit Experiment

Ανέβηκε στις 18 Ιουν 2010

Latest discussion http://www.my-big-toe.com/forums/view...

Author
of "My Big Toe" (MBT) trilogy Physicist Thomas Campbell explains what
happens during the Double Slit Experiment and why it happens.

"Physics
has no idea of the fundamental principles that require particles to
exist as probability distributions before measurement collapses the wave
function to a physical particle (measured physical state). They just
know that it is so. MBT derives from fundamental first principles why
particles must always exist first as probability distributions. Thus MBT
derives Quantum mechanics from first principles. This solution
completely resolves the apparent contradiction of wave particle duality
generated by the double slit experiment. MBT further shows that the same
concepts (reality must always exist first as probability distributions)
apply just as much to the macro world as the micro world -- it is a
general principle -- not a special principle only valid at subatomic
scales."- Thomas Campbell

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Single Photon Interference

          

Single Photon Interference

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 13 Μαρ 2013

What
happens when single photons of light pass through a double slit and are
detected by a photomultiplier tube? In 1801 Thomas Young seemed to
settle a long-running debate about the nature of light with his double
slit experiment. He demonstrated that light passing through two slits
creates patterns like water waves, with the implication that it must be a
wave phenomenon.

However, experimental results in the early
1900s found that light energy is not smoothly distributed as in a
classical wave, rather it comes in discrete packets, called quanta and
later photons. These are indivisible particles of light. So what would
happen if individual photons passed through a double slit? Would they
make a pattern like waves or like particles?
ANAΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ YOUTUBE 23/6/2017

This Is The Only Place Antimatter Can Survive In The Universe

             

This Is The Only Place Antimatter Can Survive In The Universe

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 1 Απρ 2017

Scientists at CERN are using the Large Hadron Collider to create and study antimatter, but how are they doing it?

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Bizarre Antimatter Looks Surprisingly Like Regular Matter
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"For
the first time, physicists have shown that atoms of antimatter appear
to give off the same kind of light that atoms of regular matter do when
illuminated with lasers, a new study finds. More precise measurements of
this emitted light could unearth clues that might finally help solve
the mystery of why there is so much less antimatter than normal matter
in the universe, researchers say."

Antimatter
https://home.cern/topics/antimatter
"Dirac
interpreted the equation to mean that for every particle there exists a
corresponding antiparticle, exactly matching the particle but with
opposite charge. For the electron there should be an "antielectron", for
example, identical in every way but with a positive electric charge.
The insight opened the possibility of entire galaxies and universes made
of antimatter."

Physicists have observed the light spectrum of antimatter for first time
http://www.sciencealert.com/physicist...
"After
two decades of trying, physicists at CERN have reported the first ever
measurement of the light emitted by an antimatter atom, revealing that
antihydrogen is the exact mirror image of regular hydrogen. The result,
which finally confirms what has long been predicted by the laws of
physics, opens up a new way of testing Einstein's special theory of
relativity, and could help us answer one of the biggest mysteries in
modern physics - why is there so much more regular matter than
antimatter in the Universe?"

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Τετάρτη 21 Ιουνίου 2017

What is string theory? How can I gether a clear concept about the string theory?



What is string theory? How can I gether a clear concept about the string theory?


ΒΑRAK SHOSHANI
Graduate Student at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics


So you've read in popular science literature that string theory describes the universe as the string section of a cosmic orchestra, with each note played on the strings corresponding to a different particle. As much as you enjoyed this beautiful analogy, even a layman such as yourself cannot help but feel that there's something fishy going on here. What are strings, what are they made of, and most importantly, if they're like tiny violins floating around, then who the heck is "playing" them?

Well, you've come to the right place.

Why is a "Theory of Everything" (TOE) desirable?




Why is a "Theory of Everything" (TOE) desirable?


Richard Muller

Prof Physics, UC Berkeley, author "Now, The Physics of Time"

Keep in mind that nobody proposes a Theory of Everything that would actually cover everything. The theory of everything hopes to combine the standard model of particle physics with gravity. It would not account for the unpredictable nature of radioactive decay. It would not advance our understanding of solid state physics, of superconductors, of biological processes, of material science, or of the cause of the Big Bang, or anything having to do with biology, human behavior or interactions of nations. So the title is a bit presumptuous, like the name that Leon Lederman playfully gave to the Higgs boson (he called it the "god particle") or the name that some people proposed for the top and bottom quarks (they suggest they be called "truth" and "beauty").

So beware the physicist who uses a dramatic name for a theory. Sometimes they are just trying to please their mothers by generating attention that gets their names into the newspapers.

ANAΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ QUORA 21/6/2017

What are some cool facts about the Universe?

What are some cool facts about the Universe?



 

Here are some mind-blowing facts about the Universe!

1.There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.


Two teams of astronomers, each led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), have discovered the biggest water reservoir in the entire universe that is at a distance of 30 billion trillion miles. The water reservoir is at least 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world’s oceans combined, and 100,000 times more massive than the sun. The reason has been attributed to a black hole that is steadily consuming a surrounding disk of gas and dust and in the process is spewing out water vapors.

Τρίτη 20 Ιουνίου 2017

Scientists Want to Insert Bionic Sperm Into Women's Vaginas

       

Scientists Want to Insert Bionic Sperm Into Women's Vaginas

Δημοσιεύτηκε στις 16 Ιουν 2017
Researchers are equipping sperm with tiny iron suits to turn them into cancer-fighting robots. Wait, what?

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Physicians Unveil the World's First Colonoscopy Robot
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"Researchers
at Vanderbilt University have developed a system for conducting a
standard colonoscopy procedure that uses an internal robot guided by an
external magnet."

World's Tiniest Engines Could Power Micro Robots
https://www.seeker.com/worlds-tiniest...
"Scientists
have created the world's tiniest practical engines, and these
light-powered machines could one day power microscopic robots small
enough to enter living cells, the researchers say."

Sperm Loaded with Drugs Could Target Gynecological Cancers
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/60...
"The
problems with drug delivery are many. These chemicals often become
diluted in body fluids or absorbed by other organs. And even when they
do reach their target, they cannot always penetrate cancerous tissue
easily. So a better way to deliver drugs that overcomes these issues is
urgently needed."

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Michio Kaku - Current News & Quest for Immortality

    



Michio Kaku - Current News & Quest for Immortality



ANAΡΤΗΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ YOUTUBE 21/6/2017

Solar Alert, Quake Watch Peaks, Yellowstone | S0 News June.20.2017

  



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Why do we care what's inside of a black hole? What can we learn from it?



Why do we care what's inside of a black hole? What can we learn from it?

 VICTOR T. TOTH I.T.  PART TIME PHYSISIST



First of all, Interstellar is a piece of fiction. When the movie was released, it was lauded for its scientific accuracy, so I had high expectations. My expectations were shattered by the absolutely nonsensical “science” of the movie. So please, do not rely on Interstellar as a reference on black holes.

How large is the universe in Planck lengths?

How large is the universe in Planck lengths?

Easy, I’ll let you work it out. The Planck length is 1033
centimeters.
A light year is a years’ worth of seconds (about π
107), multiplied by the speed of light 31010
centimeters per second.
Our observable universe particle horizon is 45 billion light-years.
So how many orders of magnitude, 33, plus 7.5, plus 10.5, plus 10.6 is ….
It turns out to be a rather interesting number since it may relate to the 120 or so orders of magnitude by which dark energy is much weaker than the straightforward particle physics first estimate. Take the square root of 10120.
It is a curious cosmic coincidence that may have something to do with the fact that space is quantized, tiled, and in fact an emergent property of quantum entanglement of particles and fields.

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21/6/2017

ΜΗΠΩΣ ΕΧΕΙ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΧΘΕΙ ΟΤΙ Η Η ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΧΟΡΔΩΝ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΛΑΝΘΑΣΜΈΝΗ;

 ΜΗΠΩΣ ΕΧΕΙ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΧΘΕΙ ΟΤΙ Η Η ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΧΟΡΔΩΝ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΛΑΝΘΑΣΜΈΝΗ;


Zane Jakobs, B.S./M.S. Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder

No. String Theory can’t be proven wrong yet because it hasn’t really made any quantitative predictions about reality.

In short, there are five different String Theories, all of which exist in at least 9+1 dimensions (the so-called bosonic string theories exist in 26 dimensions). This presented a problem: which, if any, describes reality? That was solved by Edward Witten, who proved that they’re all just different limits of the same 10+1-dimensional theory, which is called M-theory.

Is there even a slightest proof that multiple dimensions exist?


 Is there even a slightest proof that multiple dimensions exist? 


Richard MullerProf Physics, UC Berkeley, author "Now, The Physics of Time"
Whew, this is a tough one—but I’ll give it a go.

A proof of the existence of multiple dimensions:

In this work, I will demonstrate the irrefutable existence of multiple dimensions.

To achieve this, I will present multiple images, as follows:

Image A:


Remote control on a carpet, UK.

Image B:


Remote control on a carpet—translated 30cm in direction denoted by “dimension 1” from its position in image A.

Image C:


Remote control translated −10cm in dimension 1, translated −40cm in another dimension (denoted dimension 2), and +40cm in a third dimension (denoted dimension 3, or “the vertical dimension”), from the position in image B.

Image D:


Remote control translated along a vector (−70,200,30), and rotated about an axis, such that it lies at rest inside a coniferous perennial plant, decorated to match the cultural norms of this time of year.

As we can see, in order to describe the motion of the article (the remote control) through the various scenes, we required a three dimensional system of coordinates.

Thus, we can conclude that at a local level, space is three dimensional.

Further testing (involving counting the angles in a triangle) reveals that, to a good approximation, this three dimensional space is Euclidean.

Therefore, we conclude that we have sufficient evidence to assert that there is more than one temporal dimension—and indeed, that there are at least three spatial dimensions.

Jack Fraser, et al., 2016.

For corrections to this paper, please send them to:

Kris Kringle,

1 Penguin Avenue,

The North Pole

I hope that this very rigorous scientific treatment helps you to believe that there is more than “a slightest proof that multiple dimensions exist”.


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Δευτέρα 19 Ιουνίου 2017

ΜΠΟΡΕΙΣ ΝΑ ΕΞΗΓΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΧΟΡΔΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑΤΙ ΑΥΤΟ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΔΥΝΑΤΟΝ;

ΜΠΟΡΕΙΣ ΝΑ ΕΞΗΓΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΝ ΘΕΩΡΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΧΟΡΔΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑΤΙ ΑΥΤΟ ΕΊΝΑΙ ΔΥΝΑΤΟΝ;


Jess H. Brewer

Physicist, fisherman, gourmand, Neal Stephenson wannabe. 

All I can do is give you a layman’s synopsis, which is probably wrong in some essential ways:

Lots of people on Quora ask if elementary particles are all “made of something”. String theory is as close as we have to an answer. Suppose all the particles were different vibrational states of little loops of some kind of fundamental string. For reasons I can’t explain, this doesn’t work in 3 spatial dimensions + time; but if you postulate that spacetime has 10 or 11 or 26 dimensions, the predicted finite spectrum of allowed vibrational states matches up pretty well with the particles we know in the Standard Model. It also predicts some other particles we’ve been looking for at the LHC (unsuccessfully so far).

Now, you will probably wonder, “Where are all those other dimensions?” Well, they sort of “curl up” so that they are undetectable in our 4-dimensional spacetime. That’s what I’m told. Don’t ask me how it works.

Strings aren’t the only topological species in this theory; there are also “branes” (an N-dimensional analogue of 2D membranes embedded in 3-space) — our spacetime may be a 4D hypersurface embedded in 10- or 11- or 26-dimensional space, something a mathematician or a SF fan will have no trouble visualizing but most others find a little daunting.

Next you may ask, “So what experiments have confirmed this theory?” Well, there’s a problem: most of the predicted phenomena that would test string theory occur at energies so high that it would take an accelerator the size of the Solar system to reach them. So for now we have an army of theorists trying to find more subtle tests that could be performed in ordinary laboratories, another army of theorists trying to refine string theory to make it more elegant, internally consistent and better matched to what we do see, and a third army of skeptics declaring string theory to be a hoax, a waste of time, or “not science” because it can’t be tested.

ANAΣΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ QUORA 20/6/2017

What is the holographic principle? Does it mean that "our universe is a hologram"?


What is the holographic principle? Does it mean that "our universe is a hologram"?

JOSEPH WANG
Ph.D. Astrophysics

 That "our universe is a hologram" is perhaps one of the greatest physics-related misconceptions of recent years. Let me write a clarification in bold so that it will be absolutely clear:

No, our universe is NOT a hologram! It's just a metaphor used to describe some property we think the universe might have. It has absolutely nothing to do with actual holograms, or with "living in a simulation".

Okay, now that we've got this covered, let me explain what the holographic principle actually means.

If you freeze all atoms in the universe, does it essentially mean that you've stopped time?

JONATHAN DEVOR P.h.D. Astronomy, Harvard University (2008)

No.

You don’t need atoms to have time. In fact theoretical Cosmologists often discuss the space-time properties of various hypothesized universes, without any matter in them at all. Putting in matter just makes the equations much more messy…

Think about it like this. You can probably quite easily imagine a 2-dimentional universe as a curved sheet (i.e. a manifold), like the image seen below. You could place matter within the sheet, which will cause additional distortions, or you can simply choose to leave it empty with its “default” shape. To this you can add a third spacial dimension and/or a time dimension to your model. Doing this will make it much harder to imagine intuitively, but the mathematical techniques of general relativity, used to understand these universes, are essentially the same. So mass is very much an optional component you can choose to have or not, depending on what you’re trying to calculate.


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