Theory says this Universe is a hologram

^ lol yeah just realized I interpreted your post wrong. See i read theres no such thing as an empty space, as in an area or whatever, not as in outer space :pbut yeah ive read plenty of interesting articles in the new scientist magazines, i love those things, makes you realize how much humans still don't understand :p

WinterreiseI don't really agree with this. Saying that the universe is a trick of light is misleading. If it was a trick of light, where does it end? It's impossible for the universe to suddenly end - it's not like you'll hit an invisible wall like in old-school racing games.

Actually, space is constantly expanding. So there always is an 'end' to space. We don't know what's at the end, but (a lack of, possibly,) something is. :)

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I don't agree that there is an end.....
space/the universe is everything.....
just because it is expanding, doesn't mean there is something outside it....

^ how can something expand if it has no space to expand? From what ive gathered the Universe is just a term that is givin to space as a whole and everything within it. The universe is just a term and only has a meaning depending on what WE define it to be. Similar to an Ecosystem. An ecosystem has to be defined before it even exsits, and even then we have to draw a line and cut things out. Chances are there is no edge to the 'universe' just more 'space'

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But we've already established there is no such thing as space.....space is composed entirely of matter...
Therefore the universe is composed entirely of matterIf you want to argue that outside the universe is a vaccum...
A vaccum is the absence of matter ie. nothing...I don't know....I'm no scientist....this is just the way I see things

^either way its too much for the human mind to comprehend. Chances are we will never know.

i've been thinking. if the universe was a hologram, we'd be a hologram also, because we're in the universe.

lol yeah i guess thatd be true....

so, as we are not holograms, we can touch each other, we're tangible (i'm remembering another thread about philosophy), and the moon also exists and is tangible too, and people have already been in space, i don't think the universe is a hologram.

hmm I guess thats a conclusion. However since everything is made of matter we are all one in the same. Theory says that because the matter that we are made of vibrates and millions of times faster than the matter of say a table, that we should eaisily be able to split the matter of the table and push our hand through it if it were liquid. Plus its out mind which makes us register the things that we touch, its our mind which makes it real, and our minds are easily tricked (motion sickness is a form)which makes you think, are people really real? or does out mind make them real?

i don't believe our mind could be that easily tricked.

thats it... im never taking quantum physics OR philosophy.but jin, i disagree. our minds are a product of the universe, and what it wants us to think, we think. now, watch this lead onto the "is there a god" discussion...

blaugh dont even start that shit.

I quite like quantum physics :)

What the heck, now i am confused :-\ lol

Those are two careers I do not want to do.

i love discussing these kind of things! i simply love it, and i don't even know why!now, all of you, you can say i'm weird. :P

jadin72 · #32thats it... im never taking quantum physics OR philosophy.but jin, i disagree. our minds are a product of the universe, and what it wants us to think, we think. now, watch this lead onto the "is there a god" discussion...

Incorrect.
Your minds want you to think what I want them to think

jadin72 · #32but jin, i disagree. our minds are a product of the universe

that's a religious matter, now.

there's a giant celestial walmart handing out free minds...i like hearing an author's idea of quantum physics - take terry pratchet. he mentioned the source of all ideas being a small subatomic particle that flies through space. every now and again an idea will hit beings - like, for instance, perpetual motion. unfortunatley not all of these ideas hit people - the idea of perpetual motion hit a cockroachnice ideology... but this comes from his idea of a "multi-verse" where as a joke god (or gods) decided to make the human world flat, sit on the backs of 4 elephants who all ride around on a giant turtle of no defined sex