Mid-afternoon.
This morning you did your forty minutes exercises for a change – most days you
have walked at least a mile and sometimes more but have not recorded them
because you switched phones, giving Paul your old one. The walking stats (yours
or Carol’s) did not record to the iCloud as you had hoped. You had a late lunch
at Penn Station, stopped at the bank and post office and are now at the
Mason-Montgomery Road Kroger’s where Carol is picking up some items for
Thanksgiving. – Amorella
1452
hours. Kroger’s already has Christmas items out – trees and wreaths, etc. This
store is huge and is always full of people; they even have an area where you
can stop, pickup your ordered groceries and pay for them without getting out of
the car. I don’t know how much it is but I’m sure some busy people enjoy the
service of not having to grocery shop. Shopping the aisles for people would not
be a bad job. You would get a lot of walking in and in a short while you would
know where everything is. In Cleveland many of the groceries would have someone
bring your groceries out to your car for you or you could pick them up at a
location so once you got in the car to go the employee(s) would load the car. Such
is a slice of life in the eastern United States. Our culture is built overly
busy. I have always thought that lack of personal time is a form of cultural
slavery and it is one of the main reasons for Carol and myself became teachers. Summers and holidays off but we received no pay for the off days or
months. It worked for us. Pay in terms of time off without pay was worth more
than the money we would have made with pay. People make/made their choices and
we are no exceptions. To each their own (polite and considerate) way.
You are still absorbing the concepts of consciousness
and how a lot more might be built in to allow for the spiritual side of life to
hang in the process of entanglement. Maybe consciousness can detect
(unconsciously) this process, that is that life is naturally aware of the fuller
conditions of perhaps as Doug puts it –
** **
“Wormholes
make our universe very small and break the rules about not transferring
information faster than the speed of light. The wormholes seem to be everywhere
so maybe our universe is very small compared to the real universe. Have fun
with this new understanding of space.”
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1518
hours. Our sense of universe is not fully developed and perhaps as the ancients
discovered new earthly territories we can discover greater mental territories
through understanding the plausibility that there is much more to us as a
species than we think. We nest in a thin line of being and not being, our whole
sense of the universe also rests on or in this thin line of being and not
being. This Discover article is a few years old but this is the gist of
the concept.
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Discover Magazine
From
the June 2011 issue.
Our Universe May Be a Giant Hologram
Physicist Brian Greene explains how properties at the black hole’s
surface—its event horizon—suggest the unsettling theory that our world is a
mere representation of another universe, a shadow of the realm where real
events take place.
By
Brian Greene
Thursday, August 04, 2011
NASA
If,
when I was growing up, my room had been adorned with only a single mirror, my
childhood daydreams might have been very different. But it had two. And each
morning when I opened the closet to get my clothes, the one built into its door
aligned with the one on the wall, creating a seemingly endless series of
reflections of anything situated between them. It was mesmerizing. All the
reflections seemed to move in unison—but that, I knew, was a mere limitation of
human perception; at a young age I had learned of light’s finite speed. So in
my mind’s eye, I would watch the light’s round-trip journeys. The bob of my
head, the sweep of my arm silently echoed between the mirrors, each reflected
image nudging the next.
Sometimes
I would imagine an irreverent me way down the line who refused to fall into
place, disrupting the steady progression and creating a new reality that
informed the ones that followed. During lulls at school, I would sometimes
think about the light I had shed that morning, still endlessly bouncing between
the mirrors, and I would join one of my reflected selves, entering an imaginary
parallel world constructed of light and driven by fantasy.
To
be sure, reflected images don’t have minds of their own. But these youthful
flights of fancy, with their imagined parallel realities, resonate with an increasingly
prominent theme in modern science—the possibility of worlds lying beyond the
one we know.
There
was a time when the word universe meant “all there is.” Everything. The
whole shebang. The notion of more than one universe, more than one everything,
would seemingly be a contradiction in terms. Yet a range of theoretical
developments has gradually qualified the interpretation of universe. The word’s
meaning now depends on context. Sometimes universe still connotes absolutely
everything. Sometimes it refers only to those parts of everything that someone
such as you or I could, in principle, have access to. Sometimes it’s applied to
separate realms, ones that are partly or fully, temporarily or permanently,
inaccessible to us; in this sense, the word relegates our universe
to
membership in a large, perhaps infinitely large, collection.
With
its hegemony diminished, universe has given way to other terms that
capture the wider canvas on which the totality of reality may be painted.
Parallel worlds or parallel universes or multiple universes or alternate
universes or the metaverse, megaverse, or multiverse—they’re all synonymous,
and they’re all among the words used to embrace not just our universe but a
spectrum of others that may be out there.
The
strangest version of all parallel universe proposals is one that emerged
gradually over 30 years of theoretical studies on the quantum properties of
black holes. The work culminated in the last decade, and it suggests,
remarkably, that all we experience is nothing but a holographic projection of
processes taking place on some distant surface that surrounds us. You can pinch
yourself, and what you feel will be real, but it mirrors a parallel process
taking place in a different, distant reality.
Plato
likened our view of the world to that of an ancient forebear watching shadows
meander across a dimly lit cave wall. He imagined our perceptions to be but a
faint inkling of a far richer reality that flickers beyond reach. Two millennia
later, Plato’s cave may be more than a metaphor. To turn his suggestion on its
head, reality—not its mere shadow—may take place on a distant boundary surface,
while everything we witness in the three common spatial dimensions is a
projection of that faraway unfolding. Reality, that is, may be akin to a
hologram. Or, really, a holographic movie.
The
journey to this peculiar possibility combines developments deep and far-flung—insights
from general relativity; from research on black holes; from thermodynamics,
quantum mechanics, and, most recently, string theory. The thread linking these
diverse areas is the nature of information in a quantum universe.
Physicists
Jacob Bekenstein and Steven Hawking established that, for a black hole, the
information storage capacity is determined not by the volume of its interior
but by the area of its surface. But when the math says that a black hole’s
store of information is measured by its surface area, does that merely reflect
a numerical accounting, or does it mean that the black hole’s surface is where
the information is actually stored? It’s a deep issue and has been pursued for
decades by some of the most renowned physicists. The answer depends on whether
you view the black hole from the outside or from the inside—and from the
outside, there’s good reason to believe that information is indeed stored at the
event horizon. This doesn’t merely highlight a peculiar feature of black holes.
Black holes don’t just tell us about how black holes store information.
Black
holes inform us about information storage
in any context.
Think
of any region of space, such as the room in which you’re reading. Imagine that
whatever happens in the region amounts to information processing—information
regarding how things are right now is transformed by the laws of physics into
information regarding how they will be in a second or a minute or an hour.
Since the physical processes we witness, as well as those by which we’re
governed, seemingly take place within the region, it’s natural to expect that
the information those processes carry is also found within the region. But for
black holes, we’ve found that the link between information and surface area
goes beyond mere numerical accounting; there’s a concrete sense in which
information is stored on their surfaces.
Physicists
Leonard Susskind and Gerald ‘t Hooft stressed that the lesson should be
general: Since the information required to describe physical phenomena within
any given region of space can be fully encoded by data on a surface that
surrounds the region, then there’s reason to think that the surface is where
the fundamental physical processes actually happen. Our familiar
three-dimensional reality, these bold thinkers suggest, would then be likened
to a holographic projection of those distant two-dimensional
physical
processes.
If
this line of reasoning is correct, then there are physical processes taking
place on some distant surface that, much as a puppeteer pulls strings, are
fully linked to the processes taking place in my fingers, arms, and brain as I
type these words at my desk. Our experiences here and that distant reality
there would form the most interlocked of parallel worlds. Phenomena in the two—I’ll
call them Holographic Parallel Universes—would be so fully joined that their
respective evolutions would be as connected as me and
my shadow.
Excerpted from The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene.
Copyright © 2011 by Brian Greene. Reprinted with permission by Alfred A. Knopf,
a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
Selected and edited from discoverDOTcom
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1652
hours. I have edited the paragraph length above so that I better understand the
thought. Again, I don’t know if the conjecture/theory is correct but the
plausibility is there. This is interesting stuff and not new to me. Back in the
nineties, while at Miami I gave a talk of the subject in relationship as to how
‘ holographic games’ could be turned into and used as most of a high school
curriculum, at least that was the intent. However, these newer concepts shed a
different light on the subject and perhaps I can use this as a plot tool in
Merlyn’s mind, his dream state and also to a lesser extent in ‘Diplomatic Pouch’.
1722
hours. Home. Earlier today I was reading a quick mini review of a new film, By
the Sea, with Mr. and Mrs. Pitt and the critic suggested that Mrs. Pitt
would have been better off not trying to make the film so artistic because
doing so she lessened the dramatic impact. I immediately wondered if my
cleansing of the Merlyn’s Mind books into Great Merlyn’s Ghost is
an attempt to make the work more artistic when it doesn’t have any dramatic
impact anyway. In any case it does nothing to make it a better series of books.
The first three books have lots of roughage intact, I’m sure my passion is in
there somewhere, but they don’t say much.
Wait until you have finished these last two
books before looking for holes to plug. W’holes’ is a pun by the way. Post. –
Amorella
1729
hours. Holistic holes humor the making of a whole. I’m probably done for the
day. I want to get this stuff embedded in my head so I can do something with it
unconsciously first.
Is it authentically you if I do something
with it first? – Amorella
1732
hours. I would consider myself crazy if I were to answer, “No”. I would like to
use the concept in the transmission of the ‘dreams’ from Merlyn’s mind to the
Living and in the transmission of Ship from There to Here across the galaxy.
Are you open to other concepts of use? –
Amorella
1737
hours. Of course, Amorella, as long as reasonable and plausible can come into
imaginative play along the way.
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