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Fermilab experiment will attempt to answer whether we actually live in “the Matrix”
Scientists will attempt to discover if the universe is “real” or a holographic 3-D illusion (Photo: Fermilab)
In what may be one of the most mind-bogglingly surreal experiments ever floated, scientists at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) will attempt to discover if the universe is “real” or merely a holographic 3-D illusion that we just think is real. Using high-powered lasers, the scientists intend to determine if space-time is a quantum system made up of countless tiny bits of information.
In explaining their theory, the scientists involved make much of the analogy that, if you stand near enough to a TV screen, you will be able to see the individual pixels that, as you move away, image resolves into a whole image with the individual pixels no longer distinguishable as separate points of light.
So, the scientists propose that if the characters displayed on a TV screen don’t know that their apparent 3-D world exists only on a 2-D screen, we too could also be ignorant to the possibility that our 3-D space is also just an illusion. As such, the Fermilab scientists believe that the information about everything contained in our universe may somehow be embedded in tiny packets of information in two dimensions.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/09/fermilab-experiment-will-attempt-to-answer-whether-we-actually-live-in-the-matrix/
