Mid-afternoon. You had breakfast with Kim,
Paul, Owen, Brennan and Carol at Cracker Barrel on Rt. 36 and I-71 before
heading home. Once you arrived you spent the better part of an hour piling up
dirty clothes from the trip and unpacking as well as arranging a week’s worth
of newspapers for reading. No lunch but perhaps an early supper is in store. –
Amorella
1533 hours. The cats were really happy
to see us. Jadah’s been up on my lap twice since we arrived home. The cats were
well taken care of and Tim had mowed the lawn. They are down in the Smokey
Mountains this Labor Day weekend.
You had an early supper at Smashburgers and
are now at Kroger’s on Tylersville – routine has returned. – Amorella
1753 hours. Doug sent me two articles,
one on two-dimensional space/time and the other on Stonehenge. Both are good
but the one on two-dimensional space is better in terms of imagination being
sifted through science. Here’s the thing – it is exciting enough just to
realize that intelligent well-known scientists are taking the time to measure such
a point.
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Freaky Physics Experiment May
Prove Our Universe Is A Two-Dimensional Hologram
The Huffington Post | By
David Freeman
Posted:
08/29/2014 8:22 am EDT Updated: 08/29/2014 8:59 am EDT
Everyone knows the universe
exists in three dimensions, right? Maybe not. For some time now serious
physicists have been pondering the seemingly absurd possibility that
three-dimensional space is merely an illusion -- and that we actually live in a
two-dimensional "hologram."
And now scientists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
in Illinois have launched a mind-blowing experiment to show once and for all
what sort of universe we live in.
"We want to find out
whether space-time is a quantum system just like matter is," Dr. Craig
Hogan, director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, said in a
written statement. "If we see something, it will completely change ideas
about space we've used for thousands of years."
According to quantum theory's
uncertainty principle, it's impossible to know both the precise location and
the exact velocity of a subatomic particle. If the same uncertainty principle
applies to space as well as to matter, space too should have built-in
fluctuations--a.k.a. "quantum jitter" or "holographic
noise," according to the statement.
The 21 scientists involved in the experiment will look for the
jitter with the help of an exquisitely sensitive device known as a Holometer.
It produces laser beams 200,000 times brighter than a laser pointer and, with
the help of an optical technique known as interferometry, measures jitter in
the beams as small as a few billionths of a billionth of a meter.
The Holometer includes two
interferometers in 6-inch steel tubes about 40 meters long. Optical systems
(not shown here) in each one “recycle” laser light to create a steady, intense
laser wave. The outputs of the two photodiodes are correlated to measure
holographic jitter.
"If we find a noise we
can't get rid of, we might be detecting something fundamental about nature--a
noise that is intrinsic to space-time," Dr. Aaron Chou, the experiment's
lead scientist and project manager for the Holometer, said in the statement.
"It's an exciting moment for physics. A positive result will open a whole
new avenue of questioning about how space works."
The prospect of making a
discovery that would not only defy common sense but also overturn centuries of
scientific thinking has Chou thinking in philosophical, almost mystical terms.
"I have always believed that if indeed there is a creator,
then the mechanism by which the world was created is not necessarily
unknowable, and if we delve deeply enough we might reach some very interesting
and inescapable conclusions," Chou told The Huffington Post in an email.
"This topic brings up all sorts of interesting philosophical and
theological questions which are perhaps better discussed over a beer or a nice
cup of tea. In the meantime, we scientists have a job to do."
Selected and edited from huffingtonpostDOTcom via iPhone
Personal Hotspot
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1811
hours. It certainly brings up the philosophy.
You want to say it brings up Theology also,
but you are struggling to speak of your own sense humor and not G---D’s Humor,
that is if G---D were to exist and indeed would have a sense of humor to begin
with. – Amorella
1821 hours. I am still having a
problem at attempted format of relative thought. – rho
This is because your experience with me, the
Amorella, has
broadened
your spiritual-like perspective. You cannot come to accept Amorella as angelic
in nature yet your behavior is set on the possibility, and as such you would
rather side where you are more comfortable with this nature as a fact. – Amorella
Later,
while at the Kroger’s on Mason-Montgomery Road buying bakery bread you saw one
of your old Mason High colleagues from the history department. He wants you to
come in and lecture about writing historical circumstance in fiction. You said
you would but you doubt that he will call. – Amorella
1940 hours. Even if he did I don’t
really know what to say. I would just ask if they had any good questions about
writing fiction and if they didn’t I would thank them politely and leave. I
thought I would be ready to write tonight but I am tired already and it is only
dusk.
You
both enjoyed last Sunday’s “Manhattan” and Tuesday’s “Rossetti and Isles”.
2204 hours. Earlier I am glad you said
“spiritual-like perspective”.
This shows how broad and narrow your
“spiritual-like perspective” is. Your comfort level is still on your mind
before bed. – Amorella
2208 hours. This perspective has never
left Amorella. I don’t believe it will ever leave me.
That should tell you something, boy. I am
not going to leave either. In here, accident or not, you drop your hand into
spiritual water and your hand stays wet when you pull it out, so to speak. –
Amorella
2211 hours.
You have no words. – Amorella. Post this boy
and go to bed.
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