Even the ancient sages considered our manifested world an illusion, maya. The famous writer Edgar Allan Poe also noted: "Everything we see and the way we look is nothing but a dream within a dream." For a long time, such a view of our reality seemed "unscientific", but centuries passed, scientific knowledge and ideas about the world around us changed, and, having made a full turn, again approached the substantiation of the ideas of the ancient sages.

The provisions on the holographic structure of our Universe, put forward in the works of Bohm, Pribram, Talbot and some other scientists, were confirmed in the course of research conducted by Novosibirsk scientists under the guidance of Academician V. Kaznacheev. So, thanks to specially designed equipment, they were able to officially fix a fragment of a hologram of a cosmic lattice in Kozyrev's space. It turned out that in this hologram even the smallest part of the image carries information about the overall picture of being and the relationship of all its elements.

But not only the Universe itself, but also man and his consciousness have a holographic structure. Here is what academician V. Kaznacheev writes about this: "Our laboratories have accumulated experimental data, largely confirming the well-known hypotheses of D. Bohm and K. Pribram that there is a holographic space around the Earth, and all atomic-molecular and intellectual-psychic processes are only fragments of a giant universal hologram...

Today, a paradigm is beginning to take shape, proclaiming that our brain is a hologram, and what we feel and see is a holographic virtual process ... The body is a countless combination of various self-developing holographic spaces, fields and formations.

Thus, the myth about the objectivity of our world begins to spread before our eyes. If the world around us, as well as our brain, is just a hologram, then this world, like everything else in our reality, is illusory. At the same time, our brain only interprets the perception of the universal hologram into a picture of the reality surrounding us.

Here, for example, is what Doctor of Technical Sciences V.Tikhoplav and Candidate of Technical Sciences T.Tikhoplav write about this: "This information is staggering, because it means that the world we live in is not really rivers, mountains and valleys, but a vast ocean of waves of various frequencies. Studies have shown that all our senses perceive information from the outside world precisely in the form of waves and transmit this wave information to the brain.It turns out that everything around us is only waves, and the brain converts wave information into images of the real world that we are used to.

Any thing, for example, a cup (or a tree), has two completely different aspects of its reality. When they are passed through the "lenses" of our brain, the object appears as a cup. But if we took off the "lenses", we would feel the cup as an interference pattern (relatively, as a kind of bunch of waves).

Simply put, our brain works like a television receiver: it perceives information in the form of a packet of waves of different frequencies and deploys it on our internal screen in the form of images, objects. Research has shown that our brain is also a hologram. It is the holographic structure of the brain that explains how it manages to store a huge amount of information in a small space, the fact of instant recognition and many other phenomena of brain activity...

Our world is a complex, self-developing holographic space that reflects itself, the evolution of the Universe and the universal mind, a small part of which is living matter on planet Earth and man himself.

So it turns out that we live in an illusory world or, as esotericists believe, in a collective dream. This illusory reality around us can be called the unified Consciousness of the Universe."

Thus, our brain, our consciousness and we ourselves are a kind of "hologram within a hologram" or "an illusion within an illusion". After all, despite the fact that our senses indicate the presence of our physical world, it is a hologram. A hologram is a virtual image that has arisen where it does not exist. V. Kaznacheev claims that the holographic universe (subtle and physical worlds) is a universal cosmic hologram, inseparable parts of which are a person and his consciousness. Consequently, the physical world familiar to us, in the form in which we are accustomed to perceive it, does not actually exist.

Here, for example, is the opinion of E. Borozdin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences: "In our opinion, there is no space, no time, no matter itself, no attributes of the modern representation of the universe. The universe is a pure consciousness, which, concentrating, acquires the property of personalities of different levels. These personalities have three properties: will (intention), desire ( ability to invent), creation (creativity, satisfaction of desires) ...

Each level of the universe is created by a higher creator according to his will and plan as an illusion of time, always flowing towards perfection, and in the interaction of its components, which creates the illusion of space. These illusions have given dimensions and therefore are perceived as physical bodies of different density and configuration.

This means that our existence as individual separate consciousnesses is just a "virtual game" of the collective Consciousness of the Universe called "collective sleep". And, according to the rules of this game, we must, in the conditions of separation of individual consciousnesses, realize their original unity.

Still, the ancient sages were right and the secret teachings that when we do evil to someone, we do it to ourselves. It turns out that these secret teachings have long contained a "hint" about the illusory nature of not only the physical world, but also the individual consciousness. But only those whose consciousness is ready for this can perceive this hint. This is, in a way, an exit to another "level" of this "game".

The scientific world is on the verge of a grand discovery: we do not exist! The universe is a hologram! This means that we are not!

There is growing evidence that some parts of the universe may be special. One of the cornerstones of modern astrophysics is the cosmological principle. According to him, observers on Earth see the same thing as observers from anywhere else in the universe, and that the laws of physics are the same everywhere. Many observations support this idea. For example, the universe looks more or less the same in all directions, with roughly the same distribution of galaxies on all sides.

But in recent years, some cosmologists have begun to question the validity of this principle.

They point to evidence from Type 1 supernovae, which are moving away from us at an ever-increasing rate, indicating not only that the universe is expanding, but that the expansion is accelerating.

Curiously, the acceleration is not the same for all directions. The universe is accelerating faster in some directions than in others. But how reliable are these data? It is possible that in some directions we observe a statistical error, which will disappear with the correct analysis of the data obtained.

Rong-Jen Kai and Zhong-Liang Tuo, from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, rechecked data from 557 supernovae from all parts of the universe and recalculated. Today they confirmed the presence of heterogeneity. According to their calculations, the fastest acceleration occurs in the constellation Chanterelles of the northern hemisphere. These data are consistent with data from other studies, according to which there is an inhomogeneity in the cosmic microwave background radiation.

This may lead cosmologists to come to the bold conclusion that the cosmological principle is wrong.

An exciting question arises: why is the Universe inhomogeneous and how will this affect existing models of the cosmos?

Get ready for a galactic move

Milky Way

A team of researchers from the United States and Canada has published a map of life-forming zones in the Milky Way. The scientists' article has been accepted for publication in the journal Astrobiology, and its preprint is available at arXiv.org. According to modern concepts, the Galactic Habitable Zone (GHZ) is defined as a region where there are enough heavy elements to form planets on the one hand, and which is not exposed to cosmic cataclysms on the other. The main such cataclysms, according to scientists, are supernova explosions, which can easily "sterilize" the entire planet.

As part of the study, scientists built a computer model of the processes of star formation, as well as type Ia supernovae (white dwarfs in binary systems that steal matter from a neighbor) and II (explosion of a star with a mass of more than 8 solar). As a result, astrophysicists have been able to identify regions of the Milky Way that are theoretically habitable.

In addition, scientists have found that around at least 1.5 percent of all stars in the galaxy (that is, approximately 4.5 billion out of 3 × 1011 stars) habitable planets could exist at different times.

At the same time, 75 percent of these hypothetical planets should be in tidal capture, that is, constantly “look” at the star with one side. Whether life is possible on such planets is a matter of dispute among astrobiologists.

To calculate GHZ, scientists used the same approach that is used in the analysis of habitable zones around stars. Such a zone is usually called the region around the star, in which water in liquid form can exist on the surface of a rocky planet.

Our universe is a hologram. Does reality exist?

In simple terms, a hologram is a three-dimensional photograph, stored light rays reflected from an object at the time the hologram is recorded. Thus, you can see the jewel as if it is behind glass, although in reality it is not there, but this is only its hologram. A similar miracle was revealed to the world by Dennis Gabor in 1948, for which he received the Nobel Prize.

The nature of the hologram - "the whole in every part" - gives us a completely new way of understanding the structure and order of things. We see objects, for example, elementary particles, separated because we see only a part of reality.

These particles are not separate "parts" but facets of a deeper unity.

At some deeper level of reality, such particles are not separate objects, but, as it were, an extension of something more fundamental.

Scientists came to the conclusion that elementary particles are able to interact with each other regardless of the distance, not because they exchange some mysterious signals, but because their separation is an illusion.

If the separation of particles is an illusion, then at a deeper level, all things in the world are infinitely interconnected. The electrons in the carbon atoms in our brains are connected to the electrons in every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shines in the sky.

The universe as a hologram means that we are not

The hologram tells us that we are a hologram. Scientists from the Center for Astrophysical Research at the Fermi Laboratory (Fermilab) are now working on the creation of a “holometer” device (Holometer), with which they can refute everything that humanity now knows about the universe.

With the help of the Holometer device, experts hope to prove or disprove the crazy assumption that the three-dimensional universe as we know it simply does not exist, being nothing more than a kind of hologram. In other words, the surrounding reality is an illusion and nothing more...

The theory that the universe is a hologram is based on the recent assumption that space and time in the universe are not continuous. They allegedly consist of separate parts, dots - as if from pixels, because of which it is impossible to increase the "image scale" of the Universe indefinitely, penetrating deeper and deeper into the essence of things. Upon reaching some value of the scale, the Universe turns out to be something like a digital image of very poor quality - fuzzy, blurry.

Imagine a typical magazine photo. It looks like a continuous image, but, starting from a certain level of magnification, it breaks up into dots that make up a single whole. And also our world is allegedly assembled from microscopic points into a single beautiful, even convex picture. Amazing theory! And until recently, it was treated lightly. Only recent studies of black holes have convinced most researchers that there is something in the "holographic" theory.

The fact is that the gradual evaporation of black holes discovered by astronomers with the passage of time led to an information paradox - all the information contained about the insides of the hole in this case would disappear.

And this is contrary to the principle of preservation of information.

But Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerard t'Hooft, relying on the work of Jerusalem University professor Jacob Bekenstein, proved that all information contained in a three-dimensional object can be stored within the two-dimensional boundaries that remain after its destruction, just like the image of a three-dimensional object. object can be placed in a two-dimensional hologram.

A SCIENTIST HAD A PHANTASM ONCE

For the first time, the “crazy” idea of ​​universal illusoryness was born by the University of London physicist David Bohm, an associate of Albert Einstein, in the middle of the 20th century.

According to his theory, the whole world is arranged in much the same way as a hologram.

Just as any arbitrarily small section of a hologram contains the entire image of a three-dimensional object, so every existing object is “embedded” in each of its constituent parts.

It follows from this that objective reality does not exist, - Professor Bom then made a stunning conclusion. “Even with its apparent density, the universe is at its core a fantasy, a gigantic, luxuriously detailed hologram.

Recall that a hologram is a three-dimensional photograph taken with a laser. To make it, first of all, the object to be photographed must be illuminated by laser light. Then the second laser beam, adding up with the reflected light from the object, gives an interference pattern (alternating minima and maxima of the rays), which can be recorded on the film.

The finished shot looks like a meaningless interlayering of light and dark lines. But as soon as the image is illuminated with another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object immediately appears.

Three-dimensionality is not the only remarkable property inherent in a hologram.

If a hologram with an image of, for example, a tree is cut in half and illuminated with a laser, each half will contain a whole image of the same tree in exactly the same size. If we continue to cut the hologram into smaller pieces, on each of them we will again find an image of the entire object as a whole.

Unlike a conventional photograph, each area of ​​the hologram contains information about the entire subject, but with a proportionally corresponding decrease in clarity.

The principle of the hologram "everything in every part" allows us to approach the issue of organization and order in a completely new way, explained Professor Bohm. - For almost its entire history, Western science has evolved with the idea that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether it be a frog or an atom, is to cut it apart and study its constituent parts.

The hologram has shown us that some things in the universe cannot be explored in this way. If we dissect something arranged holographically, we will not get the parts of which it consists, but we will get the same thing, but with less accuracy.

AND HERE APPEARED AN EVERYTHING EXPLAINING ASPECT

Bohm's "crazy" idea was also prompted by a sensational experiment with elementary particles in its time. A physicist from the University of Paris, Alan Aspect, discovered in 1982 that, under certain conditions, electrons are able to instantly communicate with each other, regardless of the distance between them.

It doesn't matter if there are ten millimeters between them or ten billion kilometers. Somehow each particle always knows what the other is doing. Only one problem of this discovery was embarrassing: it violates Einstein's postulate about the limiting speed of propagation of interaction equal to the speed of light.

Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking through a time barrier, this frightening prospect has caused physicists to greatly doubt Aspect's work.

But Bohm managed to find an explanation. According to him, elementary particles interact at any distance not because they exchange some mysterious signals with each other, but because their separation is illusory. He explained that at some deeper level of reality, such particles are not separate entities, but are actually extensions of something more fundamental.

“For better understanding, the professor illustrated his intricate theory with the following example,” wrote Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe. - Imagine an aquarium with fish. Imagine also that you cannot see the aquarium directly, but only two television screens that transmit images from cameras located one in front and one on the side of the aquarium.

Looking at the screens, you can conclude that the fish on each of the screens are separate objects. Since the cameras transmit images from different angles, the fish look different. But as you continue watching, after a while you will find that there is a relationship between the two fish on different screens.

When one fish turns, the other also changes direction, slightly different, but always in line with the first. When you see one fish in full face, the other is certainly in profile. If you do not have a complete picture of the situation, you are more likely to conclude that the fish must somehow instantly communicate with each other, that this is not a fact of a coincidence.

The apparent superluminal interaction between particles tells us that there is a deeper level of reality hidden from us, Bohm explained the phenomenon of the Aspect experiences, higher dimensional than ours, as in the aquarium analogy. We see these particles as separate only because we see only a part of reality.

And particles are not separate "parts" but facets of a deeper unity that is ultimately as holographic and invisible as the tree mentioned above.

And since everything in physical reality consists of these "phantoms", the Universe we observe is itself a projection, a hologram.

What else a hologram can carry is not yet known.

Suppose, for example, that it is a matrix that gives rise to everything in the world, at least it contains all elementary particles that have taken or will someday take on any possible form of matter and energy - from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It's like a universal supermarket, which has everything.

While Bohm admitted that we have no way of knowing what else the hologram holds, he took the liberty of asserting that we have no reason to assume that there is nothing else in it. In other words, perhaps the holographic level of the world is just one of the stages of endless evolution.

OPTIMIST'S OPINION

Psychologist Jack Kornfield, speaking of his first meeting with the late Tibetan Buddhist teacher Kalu Rinpoche, recalls that the following dialogue took place between them:

Could you explain to me in a few sentences the essence of the Buddhist teachings?

I could do it, but you will not believe me, and it will take you many years to understand what I am talking about.

Anyway, explain, please, so I want to know. Rinpoche's answer was extremely brief:

You don't really exist.

TIME IS GRANULES

But is it possible to “feel” this illusory nature with instruments? It turned out yes. For several years in Germany, at the gravitational telescope built in Hannover (Germany), GEO600, research has been carried out to detect gravitational waves, space-time fluctuations that create supermassive space objects.

Not a single wave over the years, however, could not be found. One of the reasons is strange noises in the range from 300 to 1500 Hz, which the detector fixes for a long time. They interfere with his work.

Researchers searched in vain for the source of the noise until Craig Hogan, director of the Center for Astrophysical Research at the Fermi Laboratory, accidentally contacted them.

He said he understood what was going on. According to him, it follows from the holographic principle that space-time is not a continuous line and, most likely, is a collection of microzones, grains, a kind of space-time quanta.

And the accuracy of the GEO600 equipment today is sufficient to fix vacuum fluctuations occurring at the boundaries of space quanta, the very grains that, if the holographic principle is correct, the Universe consists of, - Professor Hogan explained.

According to him, GEO600 just stumbled upon the fundamental limitation of space-time - the very "grain", like the graininess of a magazine photo. And perceived this obstacle as "noise".

And Craig Hogan, following Bohm, repeats with conviction:

If the results of the GEO600 meet my expectations, then we all really live in a huge hologram on a universal scale.

The detector readings so far correspond exactly to his calculations, and it seems that the scientific world is on the verge of a grand discovery.

Experts recall that once extraneous noise that pissed off researchers at Bell Laboratory - a large research center in the field of telecommunications, electronic and computer systems - during the experiments of 1964, has already become a harbinger of a global change in the scientific paradigm: this is how the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered, which proved the hypothesis about the Big Bang.

And scientists are waiting for evidence of the holographic nature of the Universe when the device "Holometer" will work at full capacity. Scientists hope that it will increase the amount of practical data and knowledge of this extraordinary discovery, which still belongs to the field of theoretical physics.

The detector is designed as follows: they shine with a laser through a beam splitter, from there two beams pass through two perpendicular bodies, are reflected, returned back, merge together and create an interference pattern, where any distortion reports a change in the ratio of the lengths of the bodies, as the gravitational wave passes through the bodies and compresses or stretches space unequally in different directions.

- "Holometer" will allow you to zoom in on space-time and see if the assumptions about the fractional structure of the universe, based on purely mathematical deductions, are confirmed, Professor Hogan suggests.

The first data obtained using the new apparatus will begin to arrive in the middle of this year.

OPINION OF A PESSIMIST

President of the Royal Society of London, cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees: "The birth of the Universe will forever remain a mystery to us"

We do not understand the laws of the universe. And you will never know how the Universe appeared and what awaits it. Hypotheses about the Big Bang, which allegedly gave rise to the world around us, or that many others can exist in parallel with our Universe, or about the holographic nature of the world, will remain unproven assumptions.

Undoubtedly, there are explanations for everything, but there are no such geniuses who could understand them. The human mind is limited. And he has reached his limit. Even today, we are as far from understanding, for example, the microstructure of the vacuum as the fish in the aquarium, which are completely unaware of how the environment in which they live works.

For example, I have reason to suspect that space has a cellular structure. And each of its cells is trillions of trillions of times smaller than an atom. But we cannot prove or disprove this, or understand how such a construction works. The task is too difficult, transcendental for the human mind ...

Computer model of the galaxy

After nine months of calculations on a powerful supercomputer, astrophysicists have managed to create a computer model of a beautiful spiral galaxy, which is a copy of our Milky Way.

At the same time, the physics of the formation and evolution of our galaxy is observed. This model, which was created by researchers at the University of California and the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Zurich, solves a problem facing science that has emerged from the prevailing cosmological model of the universe.

“Previous attempts to create a massive disk galaxy like the Milky Way failed because the model had a bulge (central bulge) that was too large compared to the size of the disk,” said Javiera Guedes, a graduate student in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California and author of a research paper on this model, called Eris (eng. "Eris"). The study will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.

Eris is a massive spiral galaxy with a core of bright stars and other structural objects found in galaxies like the Milky Way. In terms of such parameters as brightness, the ratio of the width of the center of the galaxy and the width of the disk, stellar composition and other properties, it coincides with the Milky Way and other galaxies of this type.

According to co-author Piero Madau, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, a significant amount of money was spent on the implementation of the project, which went to the purchase of 1.4 million processor hours of computing time on a supercomputer on NASA's Pleiades computer.

The results obtained made it possible to confirm the theory of "cold dark matter", according to which the evolution of the structure of the Universe proceeded under the influence of gravitational interactions of dark cold matter ("dark" due to the fact that it cannot be seen, and "cold" due to the fact that particles moving very slowly).

“This model tracks the interaction of more than 60 million dark matter particles and gas. Its code includes the physics of processes such as gravity and fluid dynamics, star formation and supernova explosions, all at the highest resolution of any cosmological model in the world,” Guedes said.

There is growing evidence that some parts of the universe may be special.

One of the cornerstones of modern astrophysics is the cosmological principle.

According to him, observers on Earth see the same thing as observers from anywhere else in the universe, and that the laws of physics are the same everywhere.

Many observations support this idea. For example, the universe looks more or less the same in all directions, with roughly the same distribution of galaxies on all sides.

But in recent years, some cosmologists have begun to question the validity of this principle.

They point to evidence from Type 1 supernovae, which are moving away from us at an ever-increasing rate, indicating not only that the universe is expanding, but that the expansion is accelerating.

Curiously, the acceleration is not the same for all directions. The universe is accelerating faster in some directions than in others.

But how reliable are these data? It is possible that in some directions we observe a statistical error, which will disappear with the correct analysis of the data obtained.

Rong-Jen Kai and Zhong-Liang Tuo, from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, rechecked data from 557 supernovae from all parts of the universe and recalculated.

Today they confirmed the presence of heterogeneity. According to their calculations, the fastest acceleration occurs in the constellation Chanterelles of the northern hemisphere. These data are consistent with data from other studies, according to which there is an inhomogeneity in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
This may lead cosmologists to come to the bold conclusion:
the cosmological principle is wrong.

An exciting question arises: why is the Universe inhomogeneous and how will this affect existing models of the cosmos?

Original (in English): Technologyreview.com
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Get ready for a galactic move

Milky Way. A team of researchers from the United States and Canada has published a map of life-forming zones in the Milky Way. The scientists' article has been accepted for publication in the journal Astrobiology, and its preprint is available at arXiv.org.

According to modern concepts, the habitable zone of the galaxy (Galactic Habitable Zone - GHZ) is defined as a region where there are enough heavy elements to form planets on the one hand, and which is not affected by cosmic cataclysms on the other. The main such cataclysms, according to scientists, are supernova explosions, which can easily "sterilize" the entire planet.

As part of the study, scientists built a computer model of the processes of star formation, as well as type Ia supernovae (white dwarfs in binary systems that steal matter from a neighbor) and II (explosion of a star with a mass of more than 8 solar). As a result, astrophysicists have been able to identify regions of the Milky Way that are theoretically habitable.

In addition, scientists have found that around at least 1.5 percent of all stars in the galaxy (that is, approximately 4.5 billion out of 3 × 1011 stars) habitable planets could exist at different times.

At the same time, 75 percent of these hypothetical planets should be in tidal capture, that is, constantly “look” at the star with one side. Whether life is possible on such planets is a matter of dispute among astrobiologists.

To calculate GHZ, scientists used the same approach that is used in the analysis of habitable zones around stars. Such a zone is usually called the region around the star, in which water in liquid form can exist on the surface of a rocky planet.
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Our universe is a hologram. Does reality exist?

The nature of the hologram - "the whole in every part" - gives us a completely new way of understanding the structure and order of things. We see objects, for example, elementary particles, separated because we see only a part of reality.

These particles are not separate "parts" but facets of a deeper unity.
At some deeper level of reality, such particles are not separate objects, but, as it were, an extension of something more fundamental.

Scientists came to the conclusion that elementary particles are able to interact with each other regardless of the distance, not because they exchange some mysterious signals, but because their separation is an illusion.

If the separation of particles is an illusion, then at a deeper level, all things in the world are infinitely interconnected.
The electrons in the carbon atoms in our brains are connected to the electrons in every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shines in the sky.
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The universe as a hologram means that we are not

The hologram tells us that we are a hologramScientists from the Center for Astrophysical Research at the Fermi Laboratory (Fermilab) are now working on the creation of a device "holometer" (Holometer), with which they can refute everything that humanity now knows about the universe.

With the help of the Holometer device, experts hope to prove or disprove the crazy assumption that the three-dimensional universe as we know it simply does not exist, being nothing more than a kind of hologram. In other words, the surrounding reality is an illusion and nothing more.

…The theory that the Universe is a hologram is based on the not so long ago assumption that space and time in the Universe are not continuous.

They allegedly consist of separate parts, dots - as if from pixels, because of which it is impossible to increase the "image scale" of the Universe indefinitely, penetrating deeper and deeper into the essence of things. Upon reaching some value of the scale, the Universe turns out to be something like a digital image of very poor quality - fuzzy, blurry.

Imagine a typical magazine photo. It looks like a continuous image, but, starting from a certain level of magnification, it breaks up into dots that make up a single whole. And also our world is allegedly assembled from microscopic points into a single beautiful, even convex picture.

Amazing theory! And until recently, it was treated lightly. Only recent research on black holes has convinced most researchers that there is something to the "holographic" theory.

The fact is that the gradual evaporation of black holes discovered by astronomers with the passage of time led to an information paradox - all the information contained about the insides of the hole in this case would disappear.
And this is contrary to the principle of preservation of information.

But Nobel Prize-winning physicist Gerard t'Hooft, relying on the work of Jerusalem University professor Jacob Bekenstein, proved that all information contained in a three-dimensional object can be stored within the two-dimensional boundaries that remain after its destruction, just like the image of a three-dimensional object. object can be placed in a two-dimensional hologram.

A SCIENTIST HAD A PHANTASM ONCE

For the first time, the “crazy” idea of ​​universal illusoryness was born by the University of London physicist David Bohm, an associate of Albert Einstein, in the middle of the 20th century.
According to his theory, the whole world is arranged in much the same way as a hologram.
Just as any arbitrarily small section of a hologram contains the entire image of a three-dimensional object, so every existing object is “embedded” in each of its constituent parts.

It follows from this that objective reality does not exist, - Professor Bom then made a stunning conclusion. “Even with its apparent density, the universe is at its core a fantasy, a gigantic, luxuriously detailed hologram.

Recall that a hologram is a three-dimensional photograph taken with a laser. To make it, first of all, the object to be photographed must be illuminated by laser light. Then the second laser beam, adding up with the reflected light from the object, gives an interference pattern (alternating minima and maxima of the rays), which can be recorded on the film.

The finished shot looks like a meaningless interlayering of light and dark lines. But as soon as the image is illuminated with another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object immediately appears.
Three-dimensionality is not the only remarkable property inherent in a hologram.

If a hologram with an image of, for example, a tree is cut in half and illuminated with a laser, each half will contain a whole image of the same tree in exactly the same size. If we continue to cut the hologram into smaller pieces, on each of them we will again find an image of the entire object as a whole.
Unlike a conventional photograph, each area of ​​the hologram contains information about the entire subject, but with a proportionally corresponding decrease in clarity.

The principle of the hologram "everything in every part" allows us to approach the issue of organization and order in a completely new way, explained Professor Bohm. - For almost its entire history, Western science has evolved with the idea that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether it be a frog or an atom, is to cut it apart and study its constituent parts.

The hologram has shown us that some things in the universe cannot be explored in this way. If we dissect something arranged holographically, we will not get the parts of which it consists, but we will get the same thing, but with less accuracy.

AND HERE APPEARED AN EVERYTHING EXPLAINING ASPECT

Bohm's "crazy" idea was also prompted by a sensational experiment with elementary particles in its time. A physicist from the University of Paris, Alan Aspect, discovered in 1982 that, under certain conditions, electrons are able to instantly communicate with each other, regardless of the distance between them.

It doesn't matter if there are ten millimeters between them or ten billion kilometers. Somehow each particle always knows what the other is doing. Only one problem of this discovery was embarrassing: it violates Einstein's postulate about the limiting speed of propagation of interaction equal to the speed of light.
Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking through a time barrier, this frightening prospect has caused physicists to greatly doubt Aspect's work.

But Bohm managed to find an explanation. According to him, elementary particles interact at any distance not because they exchange some mysterious signals with each other, but because their separation is illusory. He explained that at some deeper level of reality, such particles are not separate entities, but are actually extensions of something more fundamental.

“For better understanding, the professor illustrated his intricate theory with the following example,” wrote Michael Talbot, author of The Holographic Universe. - Imagine an aquarium with fish. Imagine also that you cannot see the aquarium directly, but only two television screens that transmit images from cameras located one in front and one on the side of the aquarium.

Looking at the screens, you can conclude that the fish on each of the screens are separate objects. Since the cameras transmit images from different angles, the fish look different. But as you continue watching, after a while you will find that there is a relationship between the two fish on different screens.

When one fish turns, the other also changes direction, slightly different, but always in line with the first. When you see one fish in full face, the other is certainly in profile. If you do not have a complete picture of the situation, you are more likely to conclude that the fish must somehow instantly communicate with each other, that this is not a fact of a coincidence.

The apparent superluminal interaction between particles tells us that there is a deeper level of reality hidden from us, Bohm explained the phenomenon of the Aspect experiences, higher dimensional than ours, as in the aquarium analogy. We see these particles as separate only because we see only a part of reality.

And particles are not separate "parts" but facets of a deeper unity that is ultimately as holographic and invisible as the tree mentioned above.
And since everything in physical reality consists of these "phantoms", the Universe we observe is itself a projection, a hologram.

What else a hologram can carry is not yet known.

Suppose, for example, that it is a matrix that gives rise to everything in the world, at least it contains all elementary particles that have taken or will someday take on any possible form of matter and energy - from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It's like a universal supermarket, which has everything.

While Bohm admitted that we have no way of knowing what else the hologram holds, he took the liberty of asserting that we have no reason to assume that there is nothing else in it. In other words, perhaps the holographic level of the world is just one of the stages of endless evolution.

OPTIMIST'S OPINION
Psychologist Jack Kornfield, speaking of his first meeting with the late Tibetan Buddhist teacher Kalu Rinpoche, recalls that the following dialogue took place between them:

Could you explain to me in a few sentences the essence of the Buddhist teachings?
- I could do it, but you won't believe me, and it will take you many years to understand what I'm talking about.
- Anyway, explain, please, so I want to know. Rinpoche's answer was extremely brief:
- You don't really exist.

TIME IS GRANULES
But is it possible to “feel” this illusory nature with instruments? It turned out yes. For several years in Germany, at the gravitational telescope built in Hannover (Germany), GEO600, research has been carried out to detect gravitational waves, space-time fluctuations that create supermassive space objects.

Not a single wave over the years, however, could not be found. One of the reasons is strange noises in the range from 300 to 1500 Hz, which the detector fixes for a long time. They interfere with his work.

Researchers searched in vain for the source of the noise until Craig Hogan, director of the Center for Astrophysical Research at the Fermi Laboratory, accidentally contacted them.

He said he understood what was going on. According to him, it follows from the holographic principle that space-time is not a continuous line and, most likely, is a collection of microzones, grains, a kind of space-time quanta.

And the accuracy of the GEO600 equipment today is sufficient to fix vacuum fluctuations occurring at the boundaries of space quanta, the very grains that, if the holographic principle is correct, the Universe consists of, - Professor Hogan explained.

According to him, GEO600 just stumbled upon the fundamental limitation of space-time - the very "grain", like the graininess of a magazine photo. And perceived this obstacle as "noise".
And Craig Hogan, following Bohm, repeats with conviction:

If the results of the GEO600 meet my expectations, then we all really live in a huge hologram on a universal scale.

The detector readings so far correspond exactly to his calculations, and it seems that the scientific world is on the verge of a grand discovery.

Experts recall that once extraneous noise that pissed off researchers at Bell Laboratory - a large research center in the field of telecommunications, electronic and computer systems - during the experiments of 1964, has already become a harbinger of a global change in the scientific paradigm: this is how the cosmic microwave background radiation was discovered, which proved the hypothesis about the Big Bang.

And scientists are waiting for evidence of the holographic nature of the Universe when the device "Holometer" will work at full capacity. Scientists hope that it will increase the amount of practical data and knowledge of this extraordinary discovery, which still belongs to the field of theoretical physics.

The detector is designed as follows: they shine with a laser through a beam splitter, from there two beams pass through two perpendicular bodies, are reflected, returned back, merge together and create an interference pattern, where any distortion reports a change in the ratio of the lengths of the bodies, as the gravitational wave passes through the bodies and compresses or stretches space unequally in different directions.

- "Holometer" will allow you to zoom in on space-time and see if the assumptions about the fractional structure of the universe, based on purely mathematical deductions, are confirmed, Professor Hogan suggests.
The first data obtained using the new apparatus will begin to arrive in the middle of this year.

OPINION OF A PESSIMIST

President of the Royal Society of London, cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees: "The birth of the Universe will forever remain a mystery to us"

We do not understand the laws of the universe. And you will never know how the Universe appeared and what awaits it. Hypotheses about the Big Bang, which allegedly gave rise to the world around us, or that many others can exist in parallel with our Universe, or about the holographic nature of the world, will remain unproven assumptions.

Undoubtedly, there are explanations for everything, but there are no such geniuses who could understand them. The human mind is limited. And he has reached his limit. Even today, we are as far from understanding, for example, the microstructure of the vacuum as the fish in the aquarium, which are completely unaware of how the environment in which they live works.

For example, I have reason to suspect that space has a cellular structure. And each of its cells is trillions of trillions of times smaller than an atom. But we cannot prove or disprove this, or understand how such a construction works. The task is too difficult, transcendental for the human mind.

Well, solipsism as a philosophical direction has a place to be on a par with any esoteric philosophy.

"Since all our knowledge about the world and other people is derived from information that seeps into our consciousness through our senses, there is no ironclad way to refute solipsism. By ironclad I mean a strictly logical approach. It is impossible to refute something beyond pure logic and mathematics, even within them, refutation is possible only in the context of some formal system with consistent axioms and rules Accept the rules and axioms of Euclidean geometry, and then you can actually disprove the statement that the sum of the angles of a triangle is greater than 180 degrees. Although in essence this is not much different from proving the falsity of the statement that there should be seven eggs in half a dozen. Nevertheless, despite the fact that solipsism is, strictly speaking, irrefutable, no philosopher in his right mind is a solipsist. became Why?

Aristotle adhered to the point of view of common sense, which most philosophers, scientists and ordinary people now adhere to, that behind the phaneron there is a world of “matter” independent of it. It doesn't matter what we mean by "matter". It existed before the advent of human beings, and will continue to exist when they are all gone. And this external world causes events in the inner world of our sensations, the world that we perceive as our phaneron. Before Aristotle, Plato argued not only for the existence of such an external world (which creates shadows in the famous Platonic allegory of the cave), but also for the existence - independent of both matter and human minds - of a world of universal ideas like "cowness" or the number three. For Aristotle, such universals have no real existence independent of the material universe, just as the shape of a vase does not exist without the vase itself. In the Middle Ages, this question took the form of a dispute between nominalism and Platonic realism over all sorts of sophisticated terminological subtleties that do not interest us here. It is important for us that the medieval scholastics were "realists" in the sense that, like Plato and Aristotle, they believed in a huge "external" world that is outside the world of appearances, and whose existence does not need our perception.

Locke was also a good Anglican and, like the early Christian philosophers, had no doubt that God created the material world independent of human minds. As for the nature of matter, Locke (like Kant) readily admitted that it was transcendent and unknowable. And Locke divided the properties of the knowable part of matter into two classes: primary and secondary. Primary properties do not depend on perception. For example, a rock is solid whether you touch it or not. But color, a secondary quality, depends on the complex process of vision. At night, all cats are grey, and in total darkness they are not even grey.

Without denying the usefulness of this distinction, Berkeley clearly understood that in some deeper sense all qualities of things are secondary. How do we know that a stone is hard if we haven't touched it? In fact, everything we know about material objects, we have learned through our senses. Why assume the existence of a mysterious unknowable substance beyond our phaneron?

It must be said that the reason why Aristotle and the scholastics, as well as ordinary people and scientists, assume the existence of such a substance was explained many times long before Berkeley was born. The reason is that this assumption is the simplest hypothesis that explains the regularities inherent in Phaneron. Turn away from the tree and then look back at it. It is still there. You go to bed, wake up, and the room is still the same furniture. Moreover, our sensations are consistent with each other. The cube not only looks like a cube, but also feels like one. We can see, touch, smell and taste the apple. Put the apple in the fridge, take it out after an hour and take another bite. Its taste, appearance, smell and texture will be the same as before.

All of us - apart from the solipsists, of course - believe that other people exist. Moreover, they all see essentially the same phaneron. Isn't this mass of coincidences astonishing to those who doubt the existence of an external world? After all, we walk along the same streets of the same cities. We find the same houses in the same places. Two people can see the same galaxy through a telescope. Moreover, they see that it has the same spiral structure. The practicality of the hypothesis that assumes the existence of an external world, which consists of something and does not depend on our minds, is so obvious and so convincingly confirmed by centuries of experience that we can say without exaggeration: it has been confirmed better than any other empirical hypothesis. . The usefulness of this postulate is so great that only a madman or a professional metaphysician can see a reason to doubt it.

M. Gardner "Why I'm Not a Solipsist".

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Editor's note: Here is an article about the theory of Michael Talbot, which he revealed in his book "The Holographic Universe" (1991). Despite the fact that the article was written at the turn of the century, the ideas expressed in it are relevant for researchers today.

Michael Talbot (1953-1992), an Australian native, was the author of numerous books highlighting the parallels between ancient mysticism and quantum mechanics and supporting the theoretical model of reality that the physical universe is like a giant hologram.

Is there an objective reality, or is the Universe a fantasy?

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris, a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect carried out what could be one of the most significant experiments of the 20th century. You didn't hear about it on the evening news. In fact, if you're not used to reading scientific journals, chances are you haven't even heard the name Alain Aspect, although some scientists believe his discovery could change the face of science.

Aspect and his team have found that, under certain conditions, elementary particles, such as electrons, can instantly communicate with each other, regardless of the distance between them. It doesn't matter if it's 10 feet between them or 10 billion miles. Somehow each particle always knows what the other is doing.

The problem with this discovery is that it violates Einstein's postulate about the limiting speed of propagation of an interaction equal to the speed of light. Because traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking through a time barrier, this frightening prospect has led some physicists to attempt to explain Aspect's experiments in complex workarounds. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.

For example, University of London physicist David Bohm considered that the discovery of Aspect implies that objective reality does not exist, that, despite its apparent density, the universe is basically a fantasy, a gigantic, luxuriously detailed hologram.

To understand why Bohm came up with such a startling conclusion, we need to talk about holograms.

A hologram is a three-dimensional photograph taken with a laser. To produce a hologram, the subject to be photographed must first be illuminated by laser light. Then the second laser beam, adding up with the reflected light from the object, gives an interference pattern that can be recorded on the film. The finished picture looks like a meaningless alternation of light and dark lines. But as soon as the image is illuminated with another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object immediately appears.

Three-dimensionality is not the only remarkable property inherent in a hologram. If a rose hologram is cut in half and illuminated with a laser, each half will contain a whole image of the same rose in exactly the same size. If we continue to cut the hologram into smaller pieces, on each of them we will again find an image of the entire object as a whole. Unlike a conventional photograph, each area of ​​the hologram contains information about the entire subject, but with a proportionally corresponding decrease in clarity.

The principle of the hologram "everything in every part" allows us to approach the issue of organization and order in a fundamentally new way. For almost its entire history, Western science has evolved with the idea that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether it be a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its constituent parts. The hologram has shown us that some things in the universe cannot be explored in this way. If we dissect something arranged holographically, we will not get the parts of which it consists, but we will get the same thing, but with less accuracy.

This approach inspired Bohm to reinterpret Aspect's work. Bohm was sure that elementary particles interact at any distance, not because they exchange some mysterious signals with each other, but because their separation is illusory. He explained that at some deeper level of reality, such particles are not separate entities, but are actually extensions of something more fundamental.

To better understand this, Bohm offered the following illustration.

Imagine an aquarium with fish. Imagine also that you cannot see the aquarium directly, but only two television screens that transmit images from cameras located one in front and one on the side of the aquarium. Looking at the screens, you can conclude that the fish on each of the screens are separate objects. Since the cameras transmit images from different angles, the fish look different. But as you keep watching, after a while you will find that there is a relationship between the two fish on the different screens. When one fish turns, the other also changes direction, slightly differently, but always in line with the first; when you see one fish in front, the other is certainly in profile. If you do not have a complete picture of the situation, you are more likely to conclude that the fish must somehow instantly communicate with each other than that this is a coincidence.

Bohm claimed that this is exactly what happens to elementary particles in the Aspect experiment. According to Bohm, the apparent superluminal interaction between particles tells us that there is a deeper level of reality hidden from us, higher dimensional than ours, as in the aquarium analogy. And, he adds, we see the particles as separate because we only see a part of reality. The particles are not separate "parts" but facets of a deeper unity that is ultimately as holographic and invisible as the rose mentioned above. And since everything in physical reality is made up of these " phantoms", the universe we observe is itself a projection, a hologram.

In addition to being "phantomous", such a universe could have other amazing properties. If the apparent separation of particles is an illusion, then at a deeper level, all objects in the world can be infinitely interconnected. The electrons in the carbon atoms in our brains are connected to the electrons in every swimming salmon, every beating heart, every twinkling star. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature tends to divide everything, dismember, sort out all the phenomena of nature, all divisions are necessarily artificial, and nature ultimately appears as an unbreakable web. In the holographic world, even time and space cannot be taken as a basis. Because a characterization like position makes no sense in a universe where nothing is really separate from one another; time and three-dimensional space, like images of fish on screens, will need to be considered nothing more than projections. At this deeper level, reality is something like a super-hologram in which the past, present and future exist simultaneously. This means that with the help of appropriate tools, it may be possible to penetrate deep into this super-hologram and extract pictures of a long-forgotten past.

What more can carry a hologram - is still far from known. Suppose, for example, that a hologram is a matrix that gives rise to everything in the world, at least it contains all elementary particles that have taken or will someday take on any possible form of matter and energy, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It's like a universal supermarket, which has everything.

While Bohm admitted that we have no way of knowing what else the hologram holds, he took the liberty of asserting that we have no reason to assume that there is nothing else in it. In other words, perhaps the holographic level of the world is just one of the stages of endless evolution.

Bohm is not alone in its quest to explore the properties of the holographic world. Regardless of him, Stanford University neuroscientist Karl Pribram, who works in the field of brain research, also leans towards the holographic picture of the world. Pribram came to this conclusion by pondering the mystery of where and how memories are stored in the brain. Numerous experiments over decades have shown that information is not stored in any particular area of ​​the brain, but is dispersed throughout the entire volume of the brain. In a series of crucial experiments in the 1920s, brain researcher Karl Lashley found that no matter which part of the rat's brain he removed, he could not make the conditioned reflexes developed in the rat before the operation disappear. The only problem was that no one had been able to come up with a mechanism to explain this funny "everything in every part" property of memory.

Later, in the 60s, Pribram encountered the principle of holography and realized that he had found the explanation that neuroscientists were looking for. Pribram is sure that memory is contained not in neurons and not in groups of neurons, but in a series of nerve impulses that “entangle” the brain, just as a laser beam “entangles” a piece of a hologram containing the entire image. In other words, Pribram is sure that the brain is a hologram.

Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in such a small space. It is assumed that the human brain is able to remember about 10 billion bits in a lifetime (which corresponds to about the amount of information contained in 5 sets of the Encyclopædia Britannica).

It was found that another striking feature was added to the properties of holograms - a huge recording density. By simply changing the angle at which the lasers illuminate the film, many different images can be recorded on the same surface. It has been shown that one cubic centimeter of film can store up to 10 billion bits of information.

Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve the information we need from our vast memory becomes more understandable if we accept that the brain works like a hologram. If a friend asks you what comes to mind when you hear the word "zebra," you don't have to rote through your entire vocabulary to find the answer. Associations like "striped", "horse" and "lives in Africa" ​​appear in your head instantly.

Indeed, one of the most amazing properties of human thinking is that each piece of information is instantly and cross-correlated with any other - another quality inherent in the hologram. Since any section of the hologram is infinitely interconnected with any other, it is quite possible that it is the highest natural example of cross-correlated systems.

The location of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that has become more solvable in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate such an avalanche of frequencies that it perceives with various senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into our concrete idea of ​​the world. Encoding and decoding frequencies is exactly what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram serves as a kind of lens, a transmission device capable of turning a seemingly meaningless mishmash of frequencies into a coherent image, so the brain, according to Pribram, contains such a lens and uses the principles of holography to mathematically process frequencies from the senses into the inner world of our perceptions.

A lot of evidence suggests that the brain uses the principle of holography to function. Pribram's theory is finding more and more supporters among neuroscientists.

The Argentine-Italian researcher Hugo Zucarelli has recently extended the holographic model to the realm of acoustic phenomena. Perplexed by the fact that people can determine the direction of a sound source without turning their heads, even if only one ear works, Zucarelli found that the principles of holography could explain this ability as well.

He also developed holophonic sound recording technology capable of reproducing soundscapes with near-uncanny realism.

Pribram's idea that our brains mathematically construct a "hard" reality based on input frequencies has also received brilliant experimental support. It has been found that any one of our sense organs has a much larger frequency range of receptivity than previously thought. For example, researchers have found that our organs of vision are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is somewhat dependent on what is now called "osmotic frequencies", and that even the cells of our body are sensitive to a wide range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that this is the work of the holographic part of our consciousness, which transforms separate chaotic frequencies into continuous perception.

But the most startling aspect of Pribram's holographic brain model comes to light when it is compared with Bohm's theory. Because if the visible physical density of the world is only a secondary reality, and what is "out there" is in fact only a holographic set of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some frequencies from this set and mathematically converts them into sensory perception, what remains for objective reality?

Let's put it simply - it ceases to exist. As Eastern religions have been saying from time immemorial, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think that we are physical and move in the physical world, this is also an illusion.

In fact, we are "receivers" floating in a kaleidoscopic sea of ​​frequencies, and everything that we extract from this sea and turn into physical reality is just one frequency channel out of many, extracted from a hologram.

This striking new picture of reality, a synthesis of the views of Bohm and Pribram, has been called the holographic paradigm, and while many scientists have been skeptical about it, others have been encouraged by it. A small but growing group of researchers believe that this is one of the most accurate models of the world yet proposed. Moreover, some hope that it will help solve some mysteries that have not been previously explained by science and even consider the paranormal as part of nature.

Numerous researchers, including Bohm and Pribram, conclude that many parapsychological phenomena are becoming more understandable in terms of the holographic paradigm.

In a universe in which the individual brain is actually an indivisible part, a "quantum" of a large hologram and everything is infinitely connected to everything, telepathy may simply be reaching the holographic level. It becomes much easier to understand how information can be delivered from consciousness "A" to consciousness "B" at any distance, and to explain many mysteries of psychology. In particular, Grof foresees that the holographic paradigm will be able to offer a model for explaining many of the puzzling phenomena observed by people in altered states of consciousness.

In the 1950s, while researching LSD as a psychotherapeutic drug, Grof worked with a patient who suddenly became convinced that she was a female prehistoric reptile. During the hallucination, she not only gave a richly detailed description of what it is like to be a creature with such forms, but also noted the colored scales on the head of a male of the same species. Grof was struck by the fact that in a conversation with a zoologist, the presence of colored scales on the head of reptiles, which plays an important role in mating games, was confirmed, although the woman had no idea about such subtleties before.

This woman's experience was not unique. During his research, Grof encountered patients returning up the ladder of evolution and identifying themselves with a variety of species (based on the scene of the transformation of a person into an ape in the film "Altered States"). Moreover, he found that such descriptions often contain little-known zoological details that, when verified, turn out to be accurate.

Return to animals is not the only phenomenon described by Grof. He also had patients who, apparently, could connect to some kind of area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe collective or racial unconscious. Uneducated or poorly educated people suddenly gave detailed descriptions of funerals in Zoroastrian practice or scenes Hindu mythology.In other experiences, people gave convincing descriptions of out-of-body travel, predictions of pictures of the future, events of past incarnations.

In more recent studies, Grof found that the same range of phenomena appeared in drug-free therapy sessions. Since a common element of such experiments was the expansion of individual consciousness beyond the usual limits of the ego and the boundaries of space and time, Grof called such manifestations "transpersonal experience", and in the late 60s, thanks to him, a new branch of psychology called "transpersonal" psychology appeared, entirely devoted to this areas.

Although the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, created by Grof, was a rapidly growing group of like-minded professionals and became a respected branch of psychology, neither Grof himself nor his colleagues for many years could offer a mechanism to explain the strange psychological phenomena they observed. But this ambiguous position has changed with the advent of the holographic paradigm.

As Grof recently pointed out, if consciousness is in fact part of a continuum, a labyrinth connected not only to every other consciousness that exists or has existed, but to every atom, organism, and vast region of space and time, its ability to randomly tunnel through the labyrinth and experience the transpersonal the experience no longer seems so strange.

The holographic paradigm also leaves its mark on the so-called exact sciences, such as biology. Keith Floyd, a psychologist at Virginia Intermont College, has shown that if reality is just a holographic illusion, then one can no longer argue that consciousness is a function of the brain. Rather, on the contrary, consciousness creates the presence of a brain - just as we interpret the body and our entire environment as physical.

This reversal of our views of biological structures has allowed researchers to point out that medicine and our understanding of the healing process may also change under the influence of the holographic paradigm. If the apparent physical structure of the body is nothing more than a holographic projection of our consciousness, it becomes clear that each of us is much more responsible for our health than modern medicine believes. What we are now seeing as a mysterious cure could in fact be due to a change in consciousness that made appropriate adjustments to the hologram of the body.

Likewise, new alternative therapies, such as imaging, may work so well precisely because in holographic reality, thought is ultimately as real as "reality."

Even revelations and experiences of the “other world” become explicable from the point of view of the new paradigm. Biologist Lyall Watson in his book "Gifts of the Unknown" describes a meeting with an Indonesian female shaman who, performing a ritual dance, was able to make an entire grove of trees instantly disappear into the subtle world. Watson writes that while he and another surprised bystander continued to watch her, she caused the trees to disappear and reappear several times in a row.

Although modern science is unable to explain such phenomena, they become quite logical if we assume that our "dense" reality is nothing more than a holographic projection. Perhaps we can formulate the concepts of "here" and "there" more precisely if we define them at the level of the human unconscious, in which all consciousnesses are infinitely closely interconnected.

If this is true, then this is the most significant implication of the holographic paradigm in general, since it means that the phenomena observed by Watson are not public only because our minds are not programmed to trust them, which would make them so. In the holographic universe, there are no limits to the possibilities for changing the fabric of reality.

What we perceive as reality is just a canvas waiting for US to put on it any painting we wish. Everything is possible, from bending spoons at will to the phantasmagoric experiences of Castaneda in his studies with don Juan, because magic is given to us by birthright, no more and no less wonderful than our ability to create new worlds in our dreams and fantasies.

Of course, even our most "fundamental" knowledge is suspect, because in a holographic reality, as Pribram showed, even random events must be considered using holographic principles and resolved in this way. Synchronicities or coincidences suddenly make sense, and anything can be considered a metaphor, since even a chain of random events can express some kind of deep symmetry.

Whether the holographic paradigm of Bohm and Pribram gains mainstream scientific acceptance or fades away, it is safe to say that it has already influenced the way of thinking of many scientists. And even if it is found that the holographic model does not adequately describe the instantaneous interaction of elementary particles, at least, as Birbeck College London physicist Basil Hiley points out, the discovery of Aspect "showed that we must be ready to consider radical new approaches to understanding reality."

I heard a message about this discovery from one smart person around 1994, however, in a slightly different interpretation. The experience was described as follows. The flow of elementary particles passed some way and hit the target. In the middle of this path, some characteristics of the particles were measured, obviously those whose measurement does not have a significant effect on their further fate. As a result, it was found that the results of these measurements depend on what events happen to the particle in the target. In other words, the particle somehow "knows" what will happen to it in the near future. This experience makes one seriously think about the legitimacy of the postulates of the theory of relativity in relation to particles, and also remember about Nostradamus...

Translation: Irina Mirzuitova, 1999