The Amazing Holographic Universe By Michael Talbot

Reply to article by: Charles D. Bohne™
Date written: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 13:18:50 +0100


The Amazing
Holographic Universe
By Michael Talbot
12-23-5

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a
research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out
to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did
not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the
habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard
Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may
change the face of science.

Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances
subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously
communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them.
It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.

Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing.

It isn't "communication" it is "quantum entanglement". Quantum entanglement
means the subatomic particles were not always separate entities; their
individual properties were determined by or correlated to each other at their
creation, before they took the 10 feet or 10 billion mile trip. That means if
one subatomic particle was polarized at zero degrees at its creation, the other
photon will have been polarized to ninety degrees BECAUSE EACH POLARIZATION
VALUE WAS DETERMINED BY THE OTHER'S POLARIZATION VALUE AT 'BIRTH'. So this
nonsense about "when one subatomic particle was found polarized at zero degrees,
the other subatomic particle instantly 'communicated' this to the other
subatomic particle and told it to polarize itself to ninety degrees" is utter
nonsense.

The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet
that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light.

There is no such problem because Einstein said no such thing. Einstein said that
nothing with PHYSICAL MASS can travel faster than the speed of light.
Information has no mass whatsoever.

University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes
Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that
despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a
gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.

What an interesting storytale but that's all it is: a storytale. Storytales mean
nothing unless they can be proved to exist outside of the imagination of those
who believe in it. How do you know invisible pink elephants aren't the reason?
That is an interesting storytale too. Or maybe we all live in The Matrix? That
is the most interesting storytale of them all. There are thousands of storytales
that can explain thousands of mysteries but there is a big difference between
what is possible and what is actual; between what is real and what is fantasy.

In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed
as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a
universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and
three-dimensional space, like the images of the fish on the TV monitors,
would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order.

A hologram requires three basic things to exist: the film containing the
holographic information, a laser to project the latent image through the film,
and someone to perceive the projection. Without any one of these three things, a
hologram cannot exist. You are trying to take these three things and combine
them into one. A hologram cannot create, project, and perceive itself. It
wouldn't be a hologram then, it would be another storytale.

The hologram you allude to all throughout your analogy is not actually the
hologram but just the film. If you snip off a piece of that film, the entire
image remains but it becomes degraded. But some pieces will degrade the image
more than others. That's because the latent image is not 100% everywhere within
the 'hologram', it is concentrated mostly around where the object appears and
slowly fades out from there.

At its deeper level reality is a sort of superhologram in which the
past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that
given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into
the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the
long-forgotten past.

Now you are going off into some super-fantasyland. There is no logical
connection between pretending the Universe is a hologram and "there is no past,
present, of future". This shows a lack of understanding of what time is. Without
time there can be nothing. Energy requires time. Moving requires time.

Bohm is not the only researcher who has found evidence that the universe
is a hologram.

Bohm never had any evidence that the Universe is a hologram. That is a lie.

Working independently in the field of brain research,
Standford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram has also become persuaded of
the holographic nature of reality.

And like Bohm, Karl has absolutely no evidence of the holographic nature of
reality. None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Null.

Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and
where memories are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies
have shown that rather than being confined to a specific location,
memories are dispersed throughout the brain.

In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl
Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he
was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it
had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was that no one was able
to come up with a mechanism that might explain this curious "whole in
every part" nature of memory storage.

That's because Karl couldn't find the right area to remove. Thousands of other
scientists have remove bits and parts of the human brain (or a person simply has
a stroke) and found that certain functions are completely erased, never to be
found again.

Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and
realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking
for. Pribram believes

That is the keyword: believes. There is no evidence for this assertion, it is
simply a belief...not too much unlike the Santa Claus or Jesus belief.

Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many
memories in so little space. It has been estimated

It's just an estimate, not a measurement. Again, no evidence exists that the
brain can remember the entire five sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other
capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity for information
storage--simply by changing the angle at which the two lasers strike a
piece of photographic film, it is possible to record many different
images on the same surface. It has been demonstrated that one cubic
centimeter of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of information.

Where has this been "demonstrated"? Yet another storytale.

Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process
is that every piece of information seems instantly cross- correlated
with every other piece of information--another feature intrinsic to the
hologram.

Then how does that explain why humans have such poor logical thinking abilities?

Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does
best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens, a translating
device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies
into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also comprises a lens
and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the
frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our
perceptions.

Holograms never encode or decode, they record and playback. There's a big
difference between the two.

An impressive body of evidence suggests that the brain uses holographic
principles to perform its operations.

The reality is there is absolutely no evidence.

Pribram's theory, in fact, has
gained increasing support among neurophysiologists.

Even if that were true (it isn't), that wouldn't prove anything. The flat Earth
theory had almost universal support 2000 years ago, but look what happened with
that theory.

Argentinian-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli recently extended the
holographic model into the world of acoustic phenomena. Puzzled by the
fact that humans can locate the source of sounds without moving their
heads, even if they only possess hearing in one ear, Zucarelli
discovered that holographic principles can explain this ability.

Hugo Zucarelli performed no such experiment. Monoaural hearing localization has
been repeatedly studied and documented and it is vastly inferior to binaural
hearing localization and it will only work if the person can move their head
around. The monoaural Hugo did the same thing when he avoided his "near-fatal"
accident.

Zucarelli has also developed the technology of holophonic sound, a
recording technique able to reproduce acoustic situations with an almost
uncanny realism.

Holophonic sound is a case of the Emperor's New Clothes -- it doesn't exist
unless you pretend it exists. There is no audio device capable of recording or
transmitting "interference patterns". Your standard headphones and microphones
and cassette tapes can only record frequency and amplitude, but not spatial
components such as interference patterns.

But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the
brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm's theory. For if
the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is
"there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain
is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this
blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what
becomes of objective reality?

Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have
long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we
may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this
too is an illusion.

We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of
frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into
physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the
superhologram.

This whole article was a bad joke. Even the logic is laughable. Case in point:
If whole entire universe is just a hologram and therefore doesn't objectively
exist, then neither do we. We are just holograms too, remember? And for a
hologram to create itself, and project itself, and perceive itself is giving the
medium that the hologram is recorded on a mind of it's own. Which means it can't
be a hologram, it is entirely something else not even remotely related to
holograms.

In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible
portions of the greater hologram and everything is infinitely
interconnected, telepathy may merely be the accessing of the holographic
level.

But just like a real hologram, those connections are not all 100%. The further
away you are spatially, the more tenuous the connection becomes.

Whether Bohm and Pribram's holographic paradigm becomes accepted in
science or dies an ignoble death remains to be seen, but it is safe to
say that it has already had an influence on the thinking of many
scientists.

Just like flat Earth thinking did.

And even if it is found that the holographic model does not
provide the best explanation for the instantaneous communications that
seem to be passing back and forth between subatomic particles, at the
very least, as noted by Basil Hiley, a physicist at Birbeck College in
London, Aspect's findings "indicate that we must be prepared to consider
radically new views of reality".

Yes, but just not the ridiculous New Age holographic one.

http://www.crystalinks.com/holographic.html

This link tells us all we need to know about this article.

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