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How does this relate with Talbot's perspective(s) on the universe as a hologram? http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html

• jerf 15y ago
  Hawking et. al. are arguing about an idea that has equations and some sort of potential physical meaning, and in accordance with the Correspondence Principle [1] has only the most subtle of impact on the rest of physics as we know it, if true. It's an idea that can be disproved, and may have been disproved: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/hologram-universe/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/hologram-universe/ The essay you linked to is Deepak Chopra-style quanto-babble with little content that can actually be translated into something meaningful in the real world. Indeed, one must ask the question, if "reductionist" scientists are so fundamentally wrong about everything, then how come they can so successfully predict so much? Is there some physical experiment that can be run that this will produce better predictions for? So, I'd say the relationship is that Hawking et al are doing science, and Talbot is using their work as the seed for his internal random number generator. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_principle