(May 1, 2015 at 5:26 pm)Cato Wrote:(May 1, 2015 at 5:09 pm)AdamLOV Wrote: Nothing exists, and that is the only truth worth knowing, in my opinion. Recent advances in theoretical physics have brought attention to the possibility that the Universe is a hologram. This thought is comforting, for it would entail a complete absence of meaning and, therefore, make possible a lighthearted ethics that does not take anything too seriously.
I suspect that you don't understand what the holographic theory is. Also, the GEO 600 blurriness at 10^-16m of gravitational waves which gave some credence to the theory has been experimentally disputed with non-blurry gama-ray burst measurements at much smaller intervals.
http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-b...am-1.14328
It may be claimed that simulations are unreal, and should not be taken too seriously. However, the very fact that Nature saw the hologram-theory of the universe as a hypothesis worthy of representation would, at the very minimum, entail that it is a hypothesis with a claim to scientific truth. The logical leap from hologram to non-existence is, of course, a substantial one, and it is by no means compulsory to accept this wildly speculative notion. However, holograms generally lack the objecthood of the objects they represent. Their own objecthood is merely derivative, and therefore cannot be said to be authentic. Therefore it is not so implausible to assume that if the universe is a hologram, all objects that seem to be within it, lack objectivity.
