Our world is a ...hologram?

[webolife]

So is it possible to summarize the holographic principle as putting forth that a hologram is a model or metaphor for the connectivity and fractality of the universe? Not that the universe is itself a holographic projection to or from something? Or are y'all trying to say that the physical universe is a projection from another [perhaps spiritual] dimension?

[Grey Cloud]

Hi Webolife,
I'm probably in the metaphor camp. I don't really like the word 'hologram' as it conjures [sic] up visions of technology and of something projected from A to B.
The 'Maya' of the Eastern traditions works better for me. The pieces of a shattered hologram may each contain an image of the whole but it is a poor copy of the original.

[AndyM]

Gentlemen,

I'm afraid that the current best theories of physics show that the Universe is indeed a quantum hologram which is how the Universe encodes the event history of all macro scale matter and how it is continuously broadcast non-locally and is received by and interacts with other matter in its environment through a process of exchange of quantum information. This is an extension of the known process of quantum emission/absorption. It is analogous to the non-local quantum entanglement of particles but pertains to matter of all scale sizes.

QH was discovered circa 1992 by Dr. Walter Schempp, a mathematician at the University of Siegen in Germany while studying functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).

As the Universe and everything in it is effectively a quantum computer the lead role in the development of these theories are being pioneered by scientists within these disciplines.

A good starting point is here but be warned you need to do lots of reading: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.11974

[Johnbear]

I do not buy that. But the holographic principle and the fractal principle are in operation from small to universal.
So if you can understand that, then you get the holographic pricture.

[Antone]

I understand the principle of holograms. ... But to apply them to the universe as a whole sounds far fetched. Am I understanding it correctly? A projected 3 dimensional image? onto what?

Frankly--given my understanding of holograms, light, matter and the results of a number of experiments--not understanding the universe as a hologram seems a little far-fetched to me.

First, It seems to me that there are three things that are necessary to create a hologram.
1) A very high-definition piece of film
2) An object which is to be captured as an image on the film
3) And the laser beam and apparatus used to create the image on the film.

The laser beam is split. One beam is reflected off the object and the other is send directly to the film. The two beams interfere with each other as they create an image on the film.

To Create the image that we typically refer to as the hologram, you need:
1) An exposed piece of holo-film.
2) A laser beam.
3) An empty space for the image to appear in.

You shine the laser through the image and the holographic image forms on the other side.

Yes, there are other ways to make a holograph--but I want to keep the discussion simple.

Now, a hologram has some unusual characterists. The most obvious is that what appears to be a 3-dimensional images is created from a 2-dimensional piece of film.
Another very important characteristic is that a piece of holo-film can be cut up into smaller parts and each part of the film will contain the whole image. The smaller pieces of film will create fuzzier images, but it will still be the whole image that you'd see from the whole film. Cut a normal piece of film in half and when you print it you'll only see half of the image.

Experiments by Karl Pribram, Karl Lashley and others seem to indicate that our senses are all holographic in nature, as is our memory. Animals can loose massive amounts of their visual cortex and still have the ability to perform complex visual tasks. This seems to indicate that the brain is processing visual information holographically. i.e. the whole of the visual information is contained in every part of the visual cortex.

NOW... light also has this holographic characteristic. If you remove the lens from a slide projector, the image on the wall will become blurry, because there isn't any lens to focus the image. But if you place the lens in front of the light so that part of the light passes through the lens, you can create a small image on the wall. The whole image of the slide appears in the small image--even though you are only holding the lens in front of a small portion of the light coming from the projector. The closer the lens is to the projector--and thus the more light you capture by the lens, the sharper will be the image--but the image is of the whole slide.

This means that light is holographic in nature. Now, as I understand it, light is made of [photons], which are subatomic particles--but all subatomic particles share this same holographic nature. To me, this would seem to imply that all of reality is holographic in nature--at least with respect to this characteristic.

Now, Miles Mathis and others have developed theories that would seem to explain away much of the phenomenon that is associated with the theory of Quantum Mechanics--but it doesn't do this by denying the results of actual experiments--so they also have to account for the characteristics of holographic things. And so it seems to me that the electric universe is not a valid obstacle to the idea that the universe is holographic in nature.

You asked what the 3-dimensional image is being projected onto... I would reply that it is being projected onto our mind. It is what we see, hear, feel, taste and smell. Our perception of all of these sensory impressions appear to us to happen "out in physical space" when the truth is that they are happening inside our mind and our mind is "projecting" the sensation as if it were outside of our bodies--or in the case of touch, it's usually at the extremity of our bodies. Although phantom limbs and [experiments with vibrating objects at different frequencies] both prove that we can "feel" sensations in spatial locations that are literally outside of our body.

From the perspective of our minds, we can create the following extremely over-simplified analogy:

the world is the object
Light is the laser beam
mind is the holo-film

Then from the holo-film of our mind, our creativity projects it (beam) into the conceptual space of our mind (empty space--no pun intended).

Now, from the perspective of reality, the over-simplified analogy might be:

Something??? is the object
laws of physics is the laser beam
Physical Reality is the holo-film

In this analogous parallel, the source of the object is unidentified... but this is little different from the way things are when we think of the world as being "solid" or otherwise non-holographic-like in nature. For we still don't know where electrons come from or what they are. So while the holographic theory may not gain us anything in this area, at least we don't loose anything significant either.

It is clear that reality is the holo-film, however, because it seems to demonstrate clearly holographic-like qualities. These normally go unnoticed--because we have minds that convert (through a convoluted process) the "holo-film" of reality into a non-holographic-like mental image.

[junglelord]

Phase conjugation involves a holographic grating wave.
It is a scalar or longitudinal wave, a standing wave.

Phase Conjugation
Phase conjugation is a fascinating phenomenon with very unusual characteristics and properties. It operates somewhat like holography, but it is a dynamic hologram, whose "holographic plate" is defined by interfering wave fronts in a nonlinear optical medium, rather than etched as a static pattern on a glass plate.

Magical Reification
The magic of nonlinear optics is that when laser beams cross in the volume of a nonlinear optical medium, as depicted in Figure 1 A, the wave vector of the resultant nonlinear standing wave pattern automatically takes on the configuration required by the Bragg condition, no matter what the angle of intersection of the two beams. So although Bragg reflection occurs off a crystal only for certain specific angles that meet the Bragg condition, laser beams that cross in a nonlinear optical medium create a standing wave whose lattice vector is automatically equal to the difference between the two crossing beams, or,

KL = K2 - K1.

This is a remarkable constructive, or generative function of nonlinear optics, creating a whole new waveform out of whole cloth, equal to the difference between two parent wave forms. This magical act of creation can be understood as a property of the fundamental resonances in the nonlinear optical material set up by the passage of high amplitude laser beams. The laser beam sets up a resonance in the electrons that are attached to the molecules in the optical material, that makes them vibrate in sympathy with the passing wave. The difference in nonlinear optics is that this resonance takes energy to establish, as if the electron had a certain momentum to be overcome, or a capacitor that must absorb a certain charge, so that the optical material does not react instantaneously to the passing light, but with a certain energetic time lag, that borrows energy from the wave when the wave first turns on, and repays that energy debt when the wave is shut off again, like a capacitor discharging through a resistor, or a mass-and-spring system returning to center after wave passage. This is what makes nonlinear optics automatically balance the vector equation. If one wave vector deflects the electron this way, and another deflects it that way, the electron needs to return back to center before it can start the next cycle, and that returning back to center is what closes the wave vector diagram.

If the pattern of standing waves were somehow frozen as a fixed pattern of alternating refractive index, as in a layered crystal, as suggested in Figure 2 A, then this crystal would behave like a hologram that can restore the pattern of light if one of the input beams is removed. For example Figure 2 B shows beam B1 refracted by the functionally equivalent crystal lattice to produce a reflected beam in the direction of the original beam B2, and Figure 2 C shows beam B2 refracted by the equivalent crystal lattice to recreate the original beam B1. The reification in two-wave mixing has created a difference vector that has created a redundancy in the representation that allows either one of the input signals to be removed without loss of information.

If another analogy might be helpful, consider water flowing over sand, and creating little rippling dunes, and the rippling dunes in turn force the water to ripple over them, the flowing water and the rippling sand modulating each other by conforming to each other energetically. You can see the dunes eroding constantly from their flow-ward side, and building back up again on their leeward side, causing the little sand dunes to advance slowly to leeward, all in lock step with each other and with the corresponding ripples in the water. If you could instantly smooth the sand flat, but preserve the rippling pattern in the water flow, it would immediately re-establish the ripples in the sand, by allowing sand to accumulate in the stagnant parts of the flow. In fact, the rippling pattern would automatically re-establish itself naturally anyway, due to the fundamental dynamics of the water/sand interaction. Likewise, if the sand were frozen to a static plaster cast of the ripple pattern, that pattern would coerce any water flowing over it to conform to its pattern of ripples, which the water would happily comply with, if the ripples are of the right natural frequency.

The nonlinear standing wave establishes an energy coupling between the two intersecting waves, such that one wave can “pump” or amplify the other. For example if B1 is of higher amplitude than B2, then the interference pattern between B1 and B2 reflects some of the energy of B1 in the direction of B2, as in Figure 2 A, whereas if B2 is of higher amplitude than B1, some of the energy of B2 is reflected in the direction of B1, as in Figure 2 B. In fact, whether the two beams are of equal amplitude or not, some portion of B1 is always lost to B2 through the crystal, while some portion of B2 is lost to B1, as suggested in Figure 2 A, so the net energy transfer always flows from the higher amplitude beam toward the lower. That is, the two waves are intimately coupled through the nonlinear standing wave, energy-wise, and this energy coupling is what allows phase conjugation to produce an amplified reflection. To create a phase conjugate mirror we add a third probe beam, B3, to intersect with the other two beams in the nonlinear optical element as shown in Figure 3 A. This creates a fourth signal beam B4 which will eventually be our phase conjugate beam.
http://sharp.bu.edu/~slehar/PhaseConjug ... ugate.html

[junglelord]

Time Reversal and Phase Conjugation

By John Kooiman,



I think that I'm finally beginning to get a handle on some of these "time-reversed" and "phase conjugation" concepts, so I'll start by trying to answer some of your questions. This topic can be very confusing, since the word "conjugate" is used to represent different kinds of "conjugation". To determine if time reversal is involved, I find it helpful to ask: "What is the behavior of the resulting wave? Does it arrive somewhere AFTER it was emitted (or reflected) or BEFORE? Does it DIVERGE or CONVERGE?



A standard silvered mirror is indeed an E-field short, and the E-field is conjugated, but this does not result in time reversal as can be seen by the fact that the reflected wave arrives somewhere after it is reflected and continues to diverge. The reason why can be understood by analogy to a transmission line example.



The voltage on a transmission line is expressed by:



V(x) =3D Vplus*( e^(-jBx) + e^(+jBx) )



And B =3D 2*PI*f/v,



where f =3D frequency, v =3D velocity, x =3D distance.



Or: V(x) =3D Vplus*( e^(-j2*PI*f/v*x) + e^(+j2*PI*f/v*x) )



At first glance you might say: "Wow, one term is positive and one is negative, is this time reversal? The answer is no, this is space reversal instead. The negative sign is associated with the "negative x" direction.



As far as your AM side band theory goes, we can tell from the effects that this is still a time-forward wave, since it arrives somewhere after it is generated and diverges along the way. Otherwise the lower side band would arrive before the upper side band, which doesn't happen. I think that the explanation for this is that the "negative f" in the above equation has the same effect as the "negative x". Regarding beating the carrier down to zero, whenever you mix two frequencies, you always get the sum and difference frequencies. If you mix a frequency with itself, you get a doubled frequency and a DC component. This is how commercially available frequency doublers work. No time reversal here.



To really understand Optical Phase Conjunction, we need to first understand what is the difference between a time-forward and a time-reversed EM wave. To this end, I have prepared the attached graphic, which illustrates my hypothesis of the relationship of the E & M fields in these two different kinds of waves.



Please refer to this graphic to help make sense of the following discussion:



Assuming a linear polarized plane wave, a normal time-forward (or "retarded") wave obeys the "Right Hand Rule" as follows: Extend the index finger of your right hand so that it is pointing straight out. Then, bend your middle finger so that it is at a right angle to your index finger. Now, extend your thumb so that it is at a right angle to both of the above. Align your index finger with the E-field and your middle finger with the H-field and your thumb will now be pointing in the direction of propagation. A time-reversed (or "advanced") wave will obey the corresponding "Left Hand Rule" instead, as illustrated in the attached graphic.



How does this work in the case of a reflection from a short circuit? Upon encountering a short circuit, the E-field is conjugated, as it must be to assure zero volts across the short circuit, and the wave is reflected in the –x direction. However, the combination of the reversed E-field and the reversed direction effectively cancel each other out and the reflected wave continues to follow the "Right Hand Rule", as can be visualized by imagining the time-forward graphic flipped 180=B0 end-for-end in the E plane.



Similarly, in the case of a reflection from an open circuit, the H-field is conjugated, and the wave is reflected in the -x direction, which also cancel each other out, as can be visualized by imagining the time-forward graphic flipped 180=B0 end-for-end in the H plane.



So, what does it take to generate a time-reversed reflection? We need something that will either conjugate BOTH the E & H fields simultaneously, OR NEITHER.



It is also instructive to consider this problem from the particle point of view. In this view, the time-forward wave consists of a stream of photons. When they are reflected from a normal mirror, they are still photons that happen to now be traveling in the opposite direction. However, a time-reversed wave may be considered to consist of a steam of anti-photons. Quantum mechanics tells us that any anti-particle may be viewed simply as the original particle traveling backwards in time. In the case of particles with mass, like an electron, it is apparently impossible to turn a particle into its' anti-particle and if the two should ever meet they result in total annihilation. However, quantum mechanics also tells us that the massless photon is its' own anti-particle and this provides some hope that it may be possible to turn a photon into an anti-photon. This is not necessarily what is happening in the case of the Optical Phase Conjunction Mirror though. Most of these devices seem to rely upon the quantum mechanical effect of an atom absorbing a photon and emitting one or more correlated anti-photons instead, as I will explain below.



In scanning the Internet for information on Phase Conjugated Mirrors, I found that there are a number papers describing this phenomena in all sorts of different media. What most of these papers seem to have in common though, is that they use a media that is suitable for producing a laser beam. That is, they use a media that can be excited, or "pumped", by a pair of cross-fired laser beams, to excite the electrons in the media to higher orbital states, so that when stimulated by the "tickler beam" these excited electrons will drop back down and emit a photon that is correlated to the "tickler beam". These cross-fired laser beams also set up a standing wave in the non-linear media that tends to act as sort of an electromagnetic diffraction grating.



Now, returning to the wave description, one can imagine the "tickler beam" to be the time-forward wave as illustrated in the graphic. From the graphic, one can also see that if the direction of propagation of the time-reversed beam is flipped around, then the E & M fields can be brought into alignment with the time-forward beam. It is my hypotheses that the "tickler beam" imprints its' EM field pattern on the excited atoms and causes them to emit their photons in synchronization with this, while the "electromagnetic diffraction grating" somehow causes the photons to be spit out in the opposite direction, thereby effectively creating a stream of anti-photons that travel backwards in time.



Is it possible to turn a photon into an anti-photon without going through this absorption and emission process? Maybe. I have found an abstract for a paper (Theory of Optical Phase Conjunction in Kerr Media, H.F. Arnoldus and T.F. George, Physical Review A 51 ,1995, p4250) that claims to have solved Maxwell's equations for four wave mixing in a crystal media that not only predicts the time-reversed reflected wave, but also a time-reversed transmitted wave in addition to the time-forward reflected and transmitted waves. When I finally located the body of the paper at the Physical Review web site (http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v51/i5/p4250_1), the server informed me that I need to first send them $100 for an annual subscription before I can download the paper. This seems to be a bit of a high price to pay for a single paper that may or may not be helpful in understanding this phenomena. If anybody out there has a subscription to this site, I would appreciate if you could forward a copy of this paper to me (john.kooiman@andrew.com).



Since there is a microwave equivalent to a laser, called a MASER. It would seem that it should at least be possible to reproduce the optical phase conjugation technique using microwaves. The most common Maser uses a chromium doped ruby crystal as its media, biased in a magnetic field to split the energy states of the + and - spin electrons. This is necessary to split their corresponding spectral frequencies, so that it can be pumped at one frequency and emit at a slightly different frequency. It also has to be super cooled to 2=B0K to prevent the thermal noise from overwhelming the electron energy states. Therefore, a likely starting point would be to try four wave mixing in this magnetically biased, chromium doped, ruby crystal media. The frequencies and the strength of the magnetic field all have to be chosen very carefully, in order to get everything to match up correctly with the appropriate electron energy states, to make this work. This would seem to offer the possibility of a backwards in time communication device, but I'm not sure how this would relate to anti-gravity or time distortion.

http://www.intalek.com/Index/Projects/R ... gation.htm

Reminds me of the information in the book Secrets of Antigavity by Laviolette.
Also reminds me of the so called LOOKING GLASS Project.

[junglelord]

Optical phase conjugation

It is possible, using nonlinear optical processes, to exactly reverse the propagation direction and phase variation of a beam of light. The reversed beam is called a conjugate beam, and thus the technique is known as optical phase conjugation (also called time reversal, wavefront reversal and retroreflection).

One can interpret this nonlinear optical interaction as being analogous to a real-time holographic process. In this case, the interacting beams simultaneously interact in a nonlinear optical material to form a dynamic hologram (two of the three input beams), or real-time diffraction pattern, in the material. The third incident beam diffracts off this dynamic hologram, and, in the process, reads out the phase-conjugate wave. In effect, all three incident beams interact (essentially) simultaneously to form several real-time holograms, resulting in a set of diffracted output waves that phase up as the "time-reversed" beam. In the language of nonlinear optics, the interacting beams result in a nonlinear polarization within the material, which coherently radiates to form the phase-conjugate wave.

Comparison of a phase conjugate mirror with a conventional mirror. With the phase conjugate mirror the image is not deformed when passing through an aberrating element twice.The most common way of producing optical phase conjugation is to use a four-wave mixing technique, though it is also possible to use processes such as stimulated Brillouin scattering. A device producing the phase conjugation effect is known as a phase conjugate mirror (PCM).

For the four-wave mixing technique, we can describe four beams (j = 1,2,3,4) with electric fields:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_ ... onjugation

[webolife]

OK... I don't need string theory or QM to understand that my retina, as a peripheral [or "surface"?] boundary condition images real objects out there in the universe. It does so with or without both eyes intact, so the concept of depth perception has little to do with that imaging. That light is in fact a LINEAR phenomenon precludes any need for a non-linear explanation... here's what I know:
A rainbow in the sky is a natural hologram, as are various other types of halo phenomena.
The so-called diffraction pattern and misnamed interference pattern are precise holographic images of the viewed object, when taken together with its field and associated pressure gradient.
A spectrogram is likewise a hologram of the atomic structure of the chemicals being viewed.
The "belt of Venus" is a reflected or negative hologram.
But what do [we] mean when we say that the world or the universe is a hologram?
It seems that this is just a fancy way to describe what wave and particle theory cannot in fact explain, that we see distinct, well-ordered images of objects from far away rather than the fuzzy or totally enmeshed light of the Ober paradox.
Understanding that light consists, not of waves or particles, but of the optical rays with which we define its action solves all the problems in terms anyone can see and understand.

[webolife]

Pondering my own question, I have begun to realize in a clearer way that all images, whether real or virtual (I had this bit of "synaesthesia" this looking at my own reflection in the mirror this morning), are essentially holograms, or holographic... all objects in the universe are themselves essentially composed of [invisible] "particles" (or wave packets for you Gabe LaFreniere-ians) projecting their existence as an image to our retina or other detection device by means of [invisible] light rays, hence to our perception the entire universe is indeed a holographic one. Our retina is the peripheral virtual surface upon which the information of the universe has been projected... the "reality" of the sights we see are electrochemical impulses stimulated on our photoreceptors, then interpreted by our brainiac computer. While we certainly can and do reach out and "touch" a small part of our world, proving to ourselves that it is actually there, the vast majority of the universe we observe by means of holography, at least in a general sense of the word. Tell me, am I missing something here? No quantum mechanics needed for my mind to wrap this one up...

[Emol]

We live in a seeming 'linear reality'. But that may be the only vote for linearity at all... as 'perception' is easily skewed by its own 'motives'... such as; "If our reality is holographic, how can I protect myself? I choose to see it as 'linear'... and make all possible arguments against it. [fear is an incredible motivator, seen or unseen]

There is also the impossibility [so-far] of nailing-down 'time, mass and matter' with 'operational definitions', not to mention 'perception', 'consciousness', and a potful of other quandaries that we look at everything through, all involving tricky 'motive' again.

We are in a 'free for all' regarding these concepts. We can just as easily assume we are 'holographic', and let the 'linearist' enjoy the futility of proving its own messy side of the argument. Long held ideas are rarely correct... they are only 'handy' for the moments they exist in... though, as folks at Thunderbolts know, there are tools for making them last a little longer, until the next great purging of humanity occurs. {Does anyone know how to break the big flush handle?}

One avenue of play, is to assume that we definitely 'are' holographic, and look for the linear-representations of the hologram-idea around us. These adventures are beginning to play out more and more with interested people.

For instance, there are still living remnants of dinosaurs around, and people living in caves, some old cultures still exist in many ways as they were... long long ago. In the forward direction, some folks are living on the ISS... indicating a potential greater future in space.

We have a 'view of the universe' that lets us see the 'now' in many ways locally, but also lets us see back in time to its potential origins, and forward in time to our potential destination. And so, we may deduce scenarios that could be in 'our' future.

To the common-linear-observer, the holographic universe is in its still-visible histories, its current ideas/events of the 'now', and the potentialities of a future...

Who's to say that it 'isn't' all holographic, and keep a straight face?

The ruse is never in form-itself... it is always in the perceiver's 'perspective of the form'; outward-form, recreated in the meddling-ideas of the observer.

[Orlando]

In the spirit of fun, I recently had this conversation with a blind guy.
He reminded me of what Socrates stated that what we see is only a reflection of the things.

I was not that convincing!

I wonder if they put that subject in Braile how the sales would do.

Peace
Or

[webolife]

More fun... for the blind guy what we "see" is the interaction of electrical fields, as detected by our marvelous electrochemical receptors in our skin, nose, mouth, ears, and for the not totally blind, eyes.

[Orlando]

After reading this , I cut myself shaving my mind with Occams Razor, a little deep so I made a band aid;

All matter interacts and lives in an Electrical environment and has the ability to sense percept its surroundings, it does this by interpretating electrical impulses then analyses that data, we have holographic senses, but leaves the question why do we need to sense things.

It slowed the bleeding somewhat but it all boiled down to charge distribution in a given geometry of the immediate environment that we feel.
What creates the Hologram, the Qusntam Hologram? or the input into the quantum projector.

'Did you feel that?, no my Body did!'

All in the spirit of making learning Fun

Peace
Or