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Life is but a holographic projection

An experiment to detect gravitational waves may indicate that our universe is a holographic projection.

If this doesn’t blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.” […] Our everyday experience might itself be a holographic projection of physical processes that take place on a distant, 2D surface.

My socks have been blown so far off they are in a parallel universe. We might be living in the shadow of Flatland. Read the whole thing…it’s noodle-bending throughout. Reminds me of the discovery of cosmic background radiation. (via aegirthor)