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02-03-2019, 01:37 PM
Listen: Is our universe a hologram?
Eleanor Imster in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | February 3, 2019
A scientist explains one of the most mind-blowing ideas in physics in under 5 minutes.
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Since 2016, Headrick has served as deputy director of the It from Qubit: Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information project, an international effort by 18 scientists and their labs to determine whether the holographic principle is correct. Image via It from Qubit.
Matthew Headrick, an assistant professor of physics at Brandeis University, works on one of the most cutting-edge theories in theoretical physics — the holographic principle. It holds that the universe is a three-dimensional image projected off a two-dimensional surface, much like a hologram emerges from a sheet of photographic film.
In this first episode of The Take: Big Ideas Explained in Under Five Minutes (See link below), Headrick explains the holographic principle and why it excites scientists. Hendricks said:
It turns out that this idea of the holographic principle or the universe is a hologram … actually helps us to solve some of the thorniest puzzles that arise when you try to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity.
As theoretical physicists, we’re not satisfied to have two different theories. We need one, unified theory which encompasses both, and that’s a very hard problem.
Visit the link below and choose the second podcast, A truly mind-blowing theory in physics: The universe is a hologram. - ilan
https://soundcloud.com/the-take-brandeis
Eleanor Imster in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | February 3, 2019
A scientist explains one of the most mind-blowing ideas in physics in under 5 minutes.
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2019/01/physicists.jpg
Since 2016, Headrick has served as deputy director of the It from Qubit: Quantum Fields, Gravity and Information project, an international effort by 18 scientists and their labs to determine whether the holographic principle is correct. Image via It from Qubit.
Matthew Headrick, an assistant professor of physics at Brandeis University, works on one of the most cutting-edge theories in theoretical physics — the holographic principle. It holds that the universe is a three-dimensional image projected off a two-dimensional surface, much like a hologram emerges from a sheet of photographic film.
In this first episode of The Take: Big Ideas Explained in Under Five Minutes (See link below), Headrick explains the holographic principle and why it excites scientists. Hendricks said:
It turns out that this idea of the holographic principle or the universe is a hologram … actually helps us to solve some of the thorniest puzzles that arise when you try to combine quantum mechanics and general relativity.
As theoretical physicists, we’re not satisfied to have two different theories. We need one, unified theory which encompasses both, and that’s a very hard problem.
Visit the link below and choose the second podcast, A truly mind-blowing theory in physics: The universe is a hologram. - ilan
https://soundcloud.com/the-take-brandeis
