And so are you. Maybe. According to Craig Hogan, director of the Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics, “If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram.”
The scientists at GEO600 study space-time at their facility in Hanover, Germany. While the experiment exists primarily to search for gravitational waves, recently GEO600 workers have been perplexed by an odd noise from one of their detectors. Hogan seemed to know right away: “It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time.”
These convulsions could be proof of the holographic principle: the idea that information can be stored in the (two-dimensional) event horizon of a black hole, and that we could thus be living in a three-dimensional projection of a two-dimensional existence.
The implications of this are elusive and the speculations many. Try to imagine that your reality isn’t anything like what the smartest among us have found it to be throughout the history of humankind. Now stop crying.
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