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>I fail to see how the hologram concept explains anything. Think about where Classical Physics breaks down (at the big bang and black holes/singularity). So i
by throwaway_law 7y ago
>I fail to see how the hologram concept explains anything.
Think about where Classical Physics breaks down (at the big bang and black holes/singularity).
So if you, as a higher dimensional being, fall into a black hole (a lower dimensional space) where does all that higher dimensional information go? Well like a hologram, the idea is the information gets recorded on the surface of a black hole, or event horizon. In short its like a 3D object being able to exist in/on a 2D plain.
If a hologram doesn't work for you, maybe try thinking about fractal geometry where the perimeter of an object can measure infinity while simultaneously the volume is perfectly measurable and well defined.
- yters 7y agoOr a bitstring... It's unclear what is so important about the 'hologram'. What they really seem to be trying to do is explain how we get something from nothing, with ever more convoluted mathematical abstractions to try and avoid the inherent logical contradiction.
- pharke 7y agoThe basic idea is that all of the information required to recreate a higher dimensional space is encoded in a lower dimensional space. The information is "spread across" the lower dimension in that each point encodes a lower fidelity representation of the whole. Seriously though, look up how holograms work. There's a lot of thought provoking aspects to them and it's no wonder they've inspired a lot of novel thought about the nature of the universe.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoThat doesn't seem to explain anything. The higher-dimensional space isn't low-resolution. We don't live in a flickery monochrome universe?
- throwaway_law 7y ago> We don't live in a flickery monochrome universe? Yes according to Einstein we on a smooth fabric of spacetime that curves in the presence of these 3D objects...but Quantum Mechanics isn't such a smooth universe as you scale downward.
- pharke 7y agoThe higher dimensional space has "full resolution" since it is the summation of all of the data in the lower dimensional space. Any given part of the lower dimensional space has less "resolution" or information because it is a smaller sample of the whole.