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PERSONALLY, I LIKE THE THEORY THAT WE?RE LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION: Fermilab is Building a ?H?

By Glenn Reynolds

PERSONALLY, I LIKE THE THEORY THAT WE’RE LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION: Fermilab is Building a ‘Holometer’ to Determine Once and For All Whether Reality Is Just an Illusion. “The universe-as-hologram theory is predicated on the idea that spacetime is not perfectly smooth, but becomes discrete and pixelated as you zoom in further and further, like a low-res digital image. This idea isn?t novel; recent experiments in black-hole physics have offered evidence that this may be the case, and prominent physicists have proposed similar ideas. Under this theory, the universe actually exists in two dimensions and the third is an illusion produced by the intertwining of time and depth. But the false third dimension can?t be perceived as such, because nothing travels faster than light, so instruments can?t find its limits.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 29, 2010 (boomark / email).