If you thought our universe was a hologram how would you prove it?

Question

Physicist David Bohm former protege of Albert Einstein started the idea of a holographic universe since then many scientists and critics are becoming supporters but how do you go about proving that everything we assume is real is just a holographic enfoldment from within? Michael Talbot wrote a very detailed book about this called the holographic universe

Answer 1

simple, "holos" in greek means whole, and 'gram comes from 'gamma", which means message, so the universe literally means the 'whole message', cook that in your pot for a sec

Answer 2

The question is nothing but a physical version of the solipsism problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism

In short the solipsist believes (or at least entertains the idea) that everything in the world COULD BE a projection of his or her own mind, the perfect dream, so to speak. Solipsism is, by definition, not testable and therefor incompatible with science.

There is no solution to the solipsism problem in philosophy because one can either prove or disprove the hypothesis.

There is a solution to solipsism in psychology, though, in that the mentally healthy person will usually not entertain the idea or, if they do, will quickly resolve it by seeing it for what it is: an empty shell with no application in either the real world or even the inside world of a possibly "solipsist universe". The latter follows from the trivial insight that even if you happened to be trapped in a solipsist universe, the exact same rules would apply as inside the "real world" (which would be a useless philosophical concept there just as solipsism is in here).

Just imagine the solipsist who imagines their own demise in the solipsist world! They would, of course, by account of all imagined experience, be just as miserable or dead as if something bad happened to the next best real guy in the real world!

Since no solipsist is known to exist who could transform the rules of the world in which he is caught by the powers of his mind. In other words, there is no "Matrix" and no Neo that we know off, which is, by the way, also the ultimate criticism of the Matrix as a cultural phenomenon, which, if more people knew about the age and state of the solipsism hypothesis, would have been greeted with bore rather than fascination about the "imaginative powers" of the script.

The holographic formulation of the universe is the same idea, expressed in a slightly more elaborate, possibly mathematical form. But as far as the basic idea goes, it suffers from the same problem: it can't be tested and is therefor not science. Many people will, of course, like it, but as far as I know, few of those people belong to the physicist category. Certainly none of my physicist friends and colleagues will give this more than a cursory look without declaring that not only does it not pass the laugh test but that it furthermore lacks quite a bit of novelty and imagination.

While I understand that there are enough people in the general audience to go out an buy a book like the "Holographic Universe" and are perfectly incapable of distinguishing it from a truly well written one like Weinberg's "The First Three Minutes" or any number of books for the layman written by the honest specialist, this does not extend to those who actually have a professional science background.

Sorry to disappoint you. David Bohm went down the far end with this one and few, if any serious people followed him. The only curtains to peek behind here are the ones set up by the book authors who like to cash in on people who will buy pseudo-science books. There ain't no wizard of Oz, either, unless he is a mass book chain publisher who feeds to the masses whatever they will buy at a premium.

Answer 3

We would not. That is an isomorfism of the famous question, "can you prove the existence of the universe". I could speak about it, but it would be worse than reading wittgenstein's about certainty..
cheers

Answer 4

Elaborate.

Answer 5

Well, I might make a movie call "the matrix". lol

But, really did you ever see the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know!?", "Down the Rabbit Hole". If not, you must see. It addresses the same question.

Answer 6

how could it be since no human being has the ability to create tachyons which travel faster than light?

Answer 7

if you would become a hologram,then you could prove it.

Answer 8

i agree, elaborate.