RE: Are they serious? It's NOT A HOLOGRAM!
September 30, 2014 at 10:47 am
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2014 at 11:10 am by Anomalocaris.)
And hold up a mirror so it reflects the moon, and what you see in the mirror is a hologram of how the moon appears in visible wave lengths.
Btw, the basic definition of hologram doesn't say anything about visible wave length. It is the capturing of phase,intensity, and frequency of any wave field. A really high fidelity stereo recording of sound can be regarded as the hologram of sound. In physics, a hologram can refer to capturing the phase, amplitude and frequency of the quantum probability wave field of particles.
If you construct hologram of quantum probability waves of all particles that makes up the moon, which is currently well beyond our technology, but which does not contradict any know laws of physics, then you will literally have a hologram of the moon. Such a hologram of the moon will not only look like the moon from any angle, it will pull upon you with the same gravity as the moon. In fact in principle, this hologram is indistinguishable from the real moon, down to the fact that your fingers would respond just like you touched the real surface of the moon if you were to try to touch the surface of this holographic moon.
The fact that at quantum level, reality has not demonstrable deeper existence than the amplitude, frequency and phase of the probability waves of all particles is the essence of the so called holographic principle.
Btw, the basic definition of hologram doesn't say anything about visible wave length. It is the capturing of phase,intensity, and frequency of any wave field. A really high fidelity stereo recording of sound can be regarded as the hologram of sound. In physics, a hologram can refer to capturing the phase, amplitude and frequency of the quantum probability wave field of particles.
If you construct hologram of quantum probability waves of all particles that makes up the moon, which is currently well beyond our technology, but which does not contradict any know laws of physics, then you will literally have a hologram of the moon. Such a hologram of the moon will not only look like the moon from any angle, it will pull upon you with the same gravity as the moon. In fact in principle, this hologram is indistinguishable from the real moon, down to the fact that your fingers would respond just like you touched the real surface of the moon if you were to try to touch the surface of this holographic moon.
The fact that at quantum level, reality has not demonstrable deeper existence than the amplitude, frequency and phase of the probability waves of all particles is the essence of the so called holographic principle.
