I love when science challenges it's own beliefs, that's what REAL science is all about.

Prepare for a head trip: The universe may actually be a hologram and everything you see an illusion, according to new research that could prove gravity comes from thin, vibrating strings—holograms of events in a simpler, flatter cosmos. It was an idea first put forth by physicist Juan Maldacena in 1997, but never tested until now. Japanese researchers now have mathematical evidence, via two studies on black holes, that this hologram theory may in fact be right. If proven, it would solve inconsistencies in Einstein's theory of gravity, and be a "solid footing" for string theory, Nature reports.
http://www.newser.com/story/179066/all-the-universe-is-just-a-hologram.html

Quote from: Solar on December 15, 2013, 08:44:13 AM
I love when science challenges it's own beliefs, that's what REAL science is all about.

Prepare for a head trip: The universe may actually be a hologram and everything you see an illusion, according to new research that could prove gravity comes from thin, vibrating strings—holograms of events in a simpler, flatter cosmos. It was an idea first put forth by physicist Juan Maldacena in 1997, but never tested until now. Japanese researchers now have mathematical evidence, via two studies on black holes, that this hologram theory may in fact be right. If proven, it would solve inconsistencies in Einstein's theory of gravity, and be a "solid footing" for string theory, Nature reports.
http://www.newser.com/story/179066/all-the-universe-is-just-a-hologram.html

So that's what's been tugging at my back lower half, vibrating strings. 

That article sounds puffy. 

A hologram is light.  And gravity is stringless.  Besides, studying black holes is ridiculous.  We're zillions of years away from application.  Einstein just predicted they exist, and moved-on. 

Quote from: kit saginaw on December 30, 2013, 04:48:35 AM
That article sounds puffy. 

A hologram is light.  And gravity is stringless.  Besides, studying black holes is ridiculous.  We're zillions of years away from application.  Einstein just predicted they exist, and moved-on.

Life is an illusion, nothing more than a dried up fox turd blowing in the wind.

Quote from: Solar on December 30, 2013, 05:23:13 AM
Life is an illusion, nothing more than a dried up fox turd blowing in the wind.

That's from one of the greatest Woody Seeger songs ever.  My Land Is Your Land

The reporter or whoever, left out particle-physics.   Gravity is carried by a particle; the mythical graviton.  So the 'string theory' is still theoretical.  All that is is the theory that an electron isn't a speeding moon.  -It's just a vibrating string.

Quote from: kit saginaw on December 30, 2013, 03:14:12 PM
That's from one of the greatest Woody Seeger songs ever.  My Land Is Your Land

The reporter or whoever, left out particle-physics.   Gravity is carried by a particle; the mythical graviton.  So the 'string theory' is still theoretical.  All that is is the theory that an electron isn't a speeding moon.  -It's just a vibrating string.

Pete Seeger sang "This Land is Your Land" after Woody Guthrie (father of Arlo).

Here's Guthrie's version.

Woody Guthrie-This Land Is Your Land

Quote from: quiller on January 03, 2014, 07:11:31 AM
Pete Seeger sang "This Land is Your Land" after Woody Guthrie (father of Arlo).

Here's Guthrie's version.

Woody Guthrie-This Land Is Your Land

ahh, socialism...  Now all we hafta do is figure where Boxcar Willie fits-in.