ChairmanLMAO
Hay can I use that holometer to watch my paint dry? Now that would be really exciting..
Ben O'Brien
But if it's something like the matrix then some agents will change the results subtly and make it seem like your not in the "matrix". Thus somebody should prank them by showing up dressed like agents or neo or morpheus.
It sounds like they aren't testing if we are in a machine run matrix but instead looking at some fundamental aspects of space time fabric to me.
Mel Tisdale
So, if it proves that we really do live in a matrix, what can we do about it?
Mind you, it would go a long way towards explaining collateralised debt obligations and other derivatives so loved by the banking community.
There U Are
Perhaps They would start by explaining how they determined that characters on TV "know" they are real.
edro3111
Please tell me these geeks aren't using taxpayer money in any way to do this study!
Lbrewer42
" If the digitized space proposed by the researchers continues to vibrate even in its lowest energy state, they believe that their theory may be proved correct."
How very little it takes in order for someone to "prove" something nowadays is an affront to actual science. The reality of the situation is that their findings may LEND SUPPORT to their theory. To be proven, the theory must hold up in ALL cases of scrutiny - not just the first one, the first time someone comes up with an idea to test a theory.
The results of their experimentation may LEND SUPPORT to their theory. Or the results may SEEM to lend support, but are actually the result of something completely different which seem to lend support.
If I look ahead at a road on a hot day, I can plainly see the shimmer of water out in front of me and say this is (in the 2014 context of) "PROOF" the road ahead is wet. And if I had no concept of how heat rising can give an illusion of water on pavement, I pat myself on the back for being so intelligent with my proof.
And, as seems typical nowadays with "scientists," when I get to that point of the road and see how bone dry it is, I then start working on another theory and experiment to prove it was wet until I got there, how the water could instantaneously vanish, and how I was right to begin with.
No... DON'T stop the experimentation in this direction - but keep the results in context of what they really are. You might miss something unexpected by assuming the results are proof of what you were looking to prove.
The Creator
The writer of this article titled it VERY poorly. I've heard before of the theory that the universe may just be a holograph, but that is completely different than "the matrix"
The universe could be proven 100% beyond doubt to be 3D just as we perceive it, and whether or not we live in "the matrix" is an entirely different theory that may or may not be true, completely independent of whether or not the universe is 3D or a 2D holograph.
As far as "the matrix" goes, search Wikipedia for "simulated reality" and the specific section on that page "simulation argument"
Dennis Wright
This could prove to be an interesting experiment, depending upon the results.
Stuart Wilshaw
And next no doubt the will design an experiment to prove the moon really is made of cream cheese...
redjeff53
watch out! if you move just one 'planck-particle' a little, you might affect the entire time continueum!