Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Our Universe Might Be a Giant Hologram
At the beginning Brian Greene is talking about how mirrors give off reflections of light. Also about how reflected images are different to how others look at them. Briana Greene also mentions how the word universe can be used in different ways or concepts. It can be used for everything in the world, for things only you are considered in, or just for things you consider everything to you. People might see the world or universe as one, or as many different worlds. He says that two physicists named Jacob Bekenstein and Stephen Hawking found that a black hole measure's the surface area of where the information is actually stored. And that there is no right answer for it, but by the way you view the black hole, either from the inside or the outside. The implications that Greene brought on me were that I agree that the universe can be viewed differently because not all people think the same. Also that it could viewed as one or many parts in one. Knowing our perception of things does change how we can live our lives because their isn't an actual reality change about anything.
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I agree that everyone sees the universe different, form my perspective I think the universe is a hologram. I can picture us living a life under something bigger than us. If we see ants as tiny creatures or as we observe lab rats in studies, this makes me wonder if we are the subjects to some experiment and our lives are not reality. What if there is something out there that actually controls us and we are just a small grain a sand compared to it. But maybe we are just one universe and we assume too many things. The problem that we deal with is that the universe is something that is infinite and no body really knows what's out there for us to claim that we live in a mirrored realm.
ReplyDeleteSo Martin brings up a very interesting point of view in his comment. It is a very different thought that we might be like ants in an ant farm but on a greater scale. My whole take on Greene's hologram theory doesn't change the way I would live my life in the slightest. The reason is up to the point that I read this piece I was living my life as myself and living in a world as I saw as being my own and, not as some false image of another. Reading this piece when he discussed the "string theory" made me connect to a movie I just recently watched called Interstellar. In this the main character actually communicates with his daughter in the past while he is in a black hole by tapping on "strings" that seemingly have woven different realities and times together. This topic is very interesting to think about.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you guys say about living a life under something much bigger then us or anything we could ever think of. Although I find Greene's hologram theory interesting i don't think like you guys said that it will change the way i live my life. We all have our own subjective views on what we think and believe and that's where bewilderment comes in. Trying to come up with impossible answers that our curiosity questions. Although one part of Greene's article did amuse me when he talked about the "String theory." I too have just recently seen the movie Interstellar like Daniel and would have to agree that how he communicated to his daughter in the past while in the black hole by tapping on different strings of reality that have been woven together in the dimension he was thrown in was quite interesting. The fact at hand is that the universe and its infinite wonders will never be solved or known, but we can only one wonder and make up our own theories or beliefs of what's out there. That's where Bewilderment comes in.
ReplyDeleteI agree that people’s perception of life differs greatly, this obvious because people can literally look at the same thing from the same angle and have totally different opinions on the phenomenon. This reading also made me wonder why some people view things the same way and why others do not. It also made me think about how many people do see things the same way. I think the point of school and things is to make our perception the same. If it wasn’t for institution’s I think we would have a much higher range of diversity in ideas than we have now and people would be much more unique. I think that the universe is a hologram and it is a high possibility that human are living as if they are the only cultured and civilized beings in the universe but it’s a good chance that we are not dominant and there is something bigger than us. I have always thought this and this reading kind of reaffirmed my belief about this. What lead me to think like this before reading the essay is just the thought of there being other planets, I don’t think they are there for no reason, it has to be for something or all the other galaxies that exist and to believe that we are the only living organisms is a bit naive in my opinion. I thought this was a really good reading and Briana Greene did a great job communicating his ideas in a way that is easily understandable.
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