A Holographic Universe

[austintorn@aol.com]

Perhaps the brain is holographic in its experience and memory, as many have surmised from experiments on rats, or it resides in a universal hologram, but whichever.

In the brain, past experience might serve as the reference beam. New incoming information is combined with the experiences (memories) of the past to create an interference pattern. Almost immediately, the new information becomes part of the reference beam and learning has occurred. As each new piece of information arrives at the brain, a new interference pattern is created and again becomes part of the reference background. This constantly shifting interference pattern provides the mind with a continually changing model of reality.

Consider a hologram. At first it appears to be simply an interference pattern, but when illuminated with a laser a fully realized 3D object pops into view. In a similar way, the universe exists as an interference pattern of probability waves. When a portion of the pattern is "lit up" by an observer it generates what we perceive as physical reality. Perhaps each bubble generates an "image" of the whole universe, just as individual pieces of a hologram that has been cut apart retain the entire image, but with some loss of detail.

There is some theoretical support for a holographic universe. Per Wikipedia, "The holographic principle is a speculative conjecture about quantum gravity theories, proposed by Gerard 't Hooft and improved and promoted by Leonard Susskind, claiming that all of the information contained in a volume of space can be represented by a theory that lives in the boundary of that region."

I'm going to try and paraphrase the Wikipedia description of the reasoning:

The entropy that can be contained in any given volume of space can not be any larger than the entropy of the largest black hole that can fit in that space. The more massive the black hole, the larger the surface area of the event horizon. This means the maximum entropy for any region of space is determined by surface area, not by volume. This is counter-intuitive because entropy is an extensive variable, being directly proportional to mass, which is proportional to volume (all else being equal, including the density of the mass). If entropy of ordinary mass is also proportional to area, this implies that volume itself is somehow illusory: that mass occupies area, not volume, and so the universe is really a hologram which corresponds to the information encoded on its boundaries.

Then there are the philosophies of David Bohm, the quantum physicist who wrote "Wholeness and the Implicit Order"

Bohm suggests that the whole universe can be thought of as a kind of giant, flowing hologram, or holomovement, in which a total order is contained, in some implicit sense, in the same finite space. In reality time is an illusion. The explicate order is a projection from higher dimensional levels of reality, and the apparent stability and solidity of the objects and entities composing it are generated and sustained by a ceaseless process of enfoldment and unfoldment, like the illusion of subatomic particles that are constantly dissolving into the implicate order and then recrystallizing.


Here is something that I read somewhere: Our universe is a sequential series of periodic, synergistic, multidimensional holonomic image events that are reciprocally reconstructed from a transcendent, nonmaterial parent hologram which is generated or stored on an undetermined level of reciprocally emergent conditional relativity within the fundamental, irreducible, unconditioned primordial energy of physical reality just-as-it-is.

Well, who knows.

[austintorn@aol.com]

(My first post on ToeQuest)


We have some hints that the Universe is projected. The projection may function as real to us and therefore there is still knowledge to be gained from learning its mechanics, that is, our local Theory of Everything, but if indeed it is a projection, then our local TOE becomes secondary, although still quite interesting, to the ultimate reality.



— These are the hints of a projected Universe —

1) The maximum entropy calculations for black holes suggest that our 3rd dimension plays no role.

(I make quatrains to help me remember things)

Since the entropy of a black hole is known
To depend on the surface area of the
Event horizon and NOT on its volume,
Then our third dimension may be a projection.


2) The paradox of photon pair correlation suggest that they are one and the same at a deeper level of reality.

Two apparently separate particles,
Created photon pair partners, copy the other,
When one is changed, because, perhaps, they are
Still the same thing in the projector room.


3) All is projected in night dreams, so perhaps our
waking reality is also real-ized. We know that our local reality probably consists of waves and fields. The apparent physical world seems to be a fine illusion, a useful model. Models of reality could be projected, since they ARE models.

All we “see” are the insides of our heads,
A model of reality. No, you say—
Well, it’s the same model “seen” in your dreams,
With your eyes closed and you in darkness, too!


4) Quantum physics indicates that there is no objective reality at the sub-atomic level, but that the golden touch of our consciousness makes it so.

In the eerie quantum world, all possible
And potential realities
Exist at once, in a superposition,
Until one emerges into reality.

The Midas-magic of our consciousness,
That quantum alchemist of potential,
Creates the Real from the Possible, for,
Everything it touches turns to matter!


5) Quantum physics also suggests that everything connects to everything, the same as is true of any point of a holographic interference pattern. Could this be what our reality consists of.

Every part of a hologram contains the whole,
The whole universe contained within a
Grain of sand, all eternity within a moment,
The universe rumbling when an electron vibrates.


6) Holograms, crude as they are today, show that 3D can be projected from 2D. This could be the mechanism through which local reality is projected.

Are we encodings of what happens in
Some other reality—in the deep
Interior of the unseen realm where
Everything connects to/is everything?

If the universe is holographic,
Then the tree in the forest, whether seen or not,
Is, at heart, an interference pattern
Brought to life only when we tune it in.

This is the mystery of the realness
Of sleeping dreams revealed: we tune in to
The interference patterns, whether awake
Or asleep, to bring alive the reality projected.


7) M=E/CC Matter may be a projection of energy.
Electrons are thought to be vibrations of superstrings, a sort of projection. Superstring energy may be a projection of actual reality. All shows that reality is not what is seems. It does seem, though, that something underlies matter.

Perhaps matter is more than just equivalent
To energy if it were transformed,
And more than equal to it, more or less—
It may be that matter IS energy.

Perhaps energy is projected by
Information or is a part of our
Reality illusion, as well, but,
We can’t stand on turtles all the way down!


Dark energy and dark matter, if real, again seem to be primary, as energy, to what we know as matter.

Only four percent of the Universe
Consists of the matter we know and love,
The remainder being hidden from us,
So perhaps this is what’s really in charge.


9) Consciousness, being only a subject, observes whatever objects are on the mind at the moment and thus seems to be a ground state that is the same for everyone. So perhaps it is akin to or is equal to the ground state of ultimate reality. It is called ‘I’ in the English language. Our projected reality would give ‘I’ something to do.
Is consciousness the purpose of life? If consciousness precedes birth and lives on after death, it would not have much to perceive, as do we when we meditate and remove all our thoughts. If consciousness is all that’s real then it may well have to be a part of the ultimate ground of all reality.

‘I’ equals ‘awareness’ of the mind’s state,
But, who or what, then, is this ‘I’, observing,
Which is all ‘I’ can do, transcending space,
Could it be the Ground-Of-All-Being itself?

10) We know that nature appears to be simple and efficient, for example the three types of cones in the retina, whether a useful illusion or what, respectively note the wavelengths of the three primary colors and their amounts by rotating accordingly and so allow us to see millions of color variations from just those three types of detectors, so perhaps holographic projections via interference patterns would be simpler than having actual matter.

We cannot see beyond the quantum realm;
The dusk of physical science arrives?
Well, who knows, for nature is efficient—
So, likely, simple answers will appear.



— OK, but where is the projection room —

A grand scale seems more likely than a zillion little superstring projectors, but they may be intermediates. I don’t really know why I am saying this, but it sounds good; for we are now quite beyond the reach of science and into metaphysics. Perhaps, we might think, the projector is the Universe itself, through its natural laws; however, if our premise is that the Universe is itself projected, we must go further back to what is the basis for our Universe or at least look for more clues in our Universe.

11) Well, although the Universe seems to be a house of cards, there has to be something for Atlas to stand on, someplace where the buck must stop, for there must be something real somewhere, for, obviously a state of nothingness is impossible, for here we are. Not much of a clue, but we had to state it. Even illusions need a basis.

The basis of the Universe was forever here,
For nothing can make itself from nothing at all;
Such, a state of nothing could never be, for there IS
Something—something that our consciousness interprets.


12) Since, in (11), we see that nothingness is impossible, there could be no Creation, so that’s not an answer and would only beg the question. Whatever reality actually is or comes from had to be always here. I wish that I could say that all could have been created out of nothing, but as for positive and negative energies completely canceling each other with no residue and vice-versa, and say, positive energy being separated far enough from the negative to form our universe, or pluses being embedded in matter with minuses making up gravity, we are still rather stuck in accounting for the sea of potential in which energy could form, which couldn’t be nothing. Oh well, nothing is easy, or, actually, not easy.


13) That sea of potential mentioned in (12), that which existed forever, seems to have more to it than our finite world. I’m not suggesting a super being, but something much simpler, although outside of our space and time, something timeless and infinite, whatever that means.

This then is the secret of the universe,
Knowing of that which underlies all reality:
Fundamental, absolute, indestructible,
Omnipresent, omnipotent, and all pervasive.


14) So, I ask all of you, what the heck is going on? Could this be:

The Infinite may radiate through a matrix,
Using Information or Energy to create
The Cosmic Background antenna which broadcasts
Interference patterns of virtual reality.

Following is a suggestion of the above from a friend, Dr. Arnold Wolf:

Many are suggesting that the cosmic background noise (CBR) found in every directions of our dimension may not be a remnant of the so-called Big Bang. It may just be that this microwave background radiance could be the source interference pattern of your Holograph in which our reality exists.
It is my impression that a light radiance passes through a very complex matrix somewhat like the DNA which we assume is the encoded key to all life forms. As an example, take a look at the following 80 light year long nebula that is so atypical as to look like the DNA we imagine in our mind's eye.
(http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...na_nebula.html)
Why couldn't it be that our holographic universe be a product of a much more complex encrypted code matrix from which the microwave radiance (form of light) is somehow effected by striking a spinning matrix like DNA creating the fluctuations in our dimension that you describe.
It may appear that the projector room is everywhere but what creates the interference patterns which forms this very complex reality hologram? Could something like the rippled CBR be that esoteric radiant interference pattern? The light spectrum which science measures as the residual microwave background from the Big-Bang origin ex-nihilo.
I’m not saying that an aberrant 80 light year long nebula is the template matrix but might there actually be an encrypted DNA helix, one more complex than our own which when struck with an unknown radiance might form our CBR interference pattern and subsequent solid reality?
Might your intangible energy be that absolute radiance from the original ‘void’ side of some grand matrix, perhaps one carrying information like DNA does? Instead of a Big-Bang beginning of space time, a grid formed stretching the encrypted DNA template across an infinite abyss, dividing the non-wave/particle radiance between light and darkness. Absolute radiance began striking the matrix, instantly forming our now.

[SB_UK]

one of the best posts I've ever read
- I agree with much

--- maybe all

given time to think

:- )

great post indeed.

[AntonioLao]

It seems only one dimensional objects can stay connected since any closed volume would definitely separate two isolated regions into an inside and an outside and the boundary is an independent disconnected 2D closed surface.

[Mikal]

13) That sea of potential mentioned in (12), that which existed forever, seems to have more to it than our finite world. I’m not suggesting a super being, but something much simpler, although outside of our space and time, something timeless and infinite, whatever that means.......Austintorn....

Hi Austie....have you put any further thought into what this something much simpler might be....?????

I was on a scientific research site yesterday when it was suggested that this "simpler" thing whatever it was or is...released two forces...one biological which became life and one geological which became the earth and planets...

Just thought that was interesting.....


Mikal

[austintorn@aol.com]

The 'sea of potential' is what we're going on to describe in the T-O-T T-O-O thread, spurred on by Huck's book, a Potential that we arrived at since real things could not have been around forever and since 'nothing' is unproductive. So, what's left is possibility.

[SB_UK]

Imagine a dark, still lake -
throw a stone in -

and in another scenario
- repeat the exact same throw of an identical stone at 3 second intervals.

In the second scenario we'll settle into a kinda' steady-state pattern where it appears as though the pattern of interferences of ripples has settled into structure

- the structure dissipates when the rocks are no longer thrown.

This then is the secret of the universe,
Knowing of that which underlies all reality:
Fundamental, absolute, indestructible,
Omnipresent, omnipotent, and all pervasive.

exactly

Imagine a dark, still lake -
- as your matrix

planck length wave length standing waves forming mini bite-sized 'Moebius strip' black holes
- everting -
first this way and then the next.

all the same (and all very small indeed)

nu -----> standing wave
()() ----> Moebius strip
()><() -> black hole everting

great post by the way.

: -)

[SB_UK]

It seems only one dimensional objects can stay connected since any closed volume would definitely separate two isolated regions into an inside and an outside and the boundary is an independent disconnected 2D closed surface.

only one dimensional objects

-- from our perspective.

[dipayankar]

SO Antonio, do you actually mean that we live in a one dimensional Universe? With the other two (or more dimensions as projections?) Then what happens to the string theory??

It seems only one dimensional objects can stay connected since any closed volume would definitely separate two isolated regions into an inside and an outside and the boundary is an independent disconnected 2D closed surface.

[dipayankar]

Good one Austin

[quote=austintorn@aol.com;67389](My first post on ToeQuest)


We have some hints that the Universe is projected. The projection may function as real to us and therefore there is still knowledge to be gained from learning its mechanics, that is, our local Theory of Everything, but if indeed it is a projection, then our local TOE becomes secondary, although still quite interesting, to the ultimate reality.