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Connectivism. Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram. To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Why 'The Universe Is Perfectly Set Up For Life' Is a Terrible Justification for God's Existence | Belief. March 29, 2010 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. "But the Universe is so perfectly fine-tuned for life. What are the chances that this happened by accident? Doesn't it seem like the Universe had to have been created this way on purpose? " As I've written before: Many arguments for religion and against atheism are so bad, they can't even be considered arguments. But some arguments for religion do sincerely offer evidence and reason for the existence of God.
Today's argument: the argument from fine-tuning. The argument from fine-tuning goes roughly like this: The Universe is perfectly fine-tuned to allow life to come into being. Okay. The Perfectly Fine-Tuned Puddle Hole Let's assume, for the moment, that the Universe really is perfectly set up for life, and human life at that. Does that imply the Universe was created that way on purpose? No. Here's an analogy. Does that mean that this sequence was designed to come up?
Religious and Scientific Faith. My perspective on the world is agnostic, secular and scientific. From that perspective, I used to think that faith, as the belief in things unseen, only concerns religions. Religions require many beliefs in unseen things. We need faith in order to have beliefs about them, because there is no way of knowing the truth of statements about supernatural or paranormal entities.
We cannot reliably detect supernatural beings by ordinary sensory or generally empirical means. “Reliably” is the key term, since there is no lack of anecdotal testimony. However, mere assertion does not make the anecdotes true. More crucially, it takes faith to believe in the the existence of gods or a single God with supernatural powers and occult qualities. I choose to be agnostic about things I cannot know, and this means that I must allow the bare logical possibility of the existence of Divine Being.
What a fool I was. It follows that we must all have faith in things unseen that we cannot ultimately know. The Biocentric Universe Theory: Life Creates Time, Space, and the Cosmos Itself | Cosmology. At the moment there are only four explanations for this mystery. The first two give us little to work with from a scientific perspective. One is simply to argue for incredible coincidence. Another is to say, “God did it,” which explains nothing even if it is true. The third explanation invokes a concept called the anthropic principle, first articulated by Cambridge astrophysicist Brandon Carter in 1973. This principle holds that we must find the right conditions for life in our universe, because if such life did not exist, we would not be here to find those conditions.
Some cosmologists have tried to wed the anthropic principle with the recent theories that suggest our universe is just one of a vast multitude of universes, each with its own physical laws. Through sheer numbers, then, it would not be surprising that one of these universes would have the right qualities for life. According to biocentrism, time does not exist independently of the life that notices it. Is the Universe a Holographic Reality? The Universe as a Hologram by Michael Talbot Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? In 1982 a remarkable event took place.
At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Cumulative Advantage - Idea Lab. Science Says War Is Over Now (Given the Right Conditions) | Human Evolution. Fry has also identified 74 “nonwarring cultures” that—while only a fraction of all known societies—nonetheless contradict the depiction of war as universal.
His list includes nomadic hunter-gatherers such as the ! Kung in Africa and Aborigines in Australia. These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago. That time span constitutes 99 percent of our history. Lethal violence certainly occurred among those nomadic hunter-gatherers, Fry acknowledges, but for the most part it consisted not of genuine warfare but of fights between two men, often over a woman. Fry has sought to determine what distinguishes peaceful societies from more violent ones. Fry believes that empowering females may reduce the rate of violence committed within and by a nation.