The Universe is Truly Outrageous
So as it turns out, you are quite possibly a very blurry projection of the ‘real’ version of you.
Let me back up a bit.
Crook sent me a one-line email this past week that said:
I looked at the permalink and saw the words ‘our world may be a giant hologram’ and quickly surmised that he was right. It did seem like something I’d post about. I promptly flagged and forgot.
Later that evening—or maybe even the next day—I got around to reading the thing, and, well, I have been living in a fog ever since. As a matter of fact, the article, it’s subject matter, and the way in which it attempted to frame the core idea: that we live in a world that is merely a fuzzed-out shadow of something else.
This something else, without quoting huge excerpts of the article itself, is quite simply the realer, sharper version of all information—all energy—contained within the Universe as we know it. Because that real information—that real energy—exists beyond the event-horizon of our ever-expanding Universe, and as such, is necessarily something that we can never know.
In other words, we’re the footprint, not the foot.
Granted…this is all theory. Theory that in many ways is being anecdotally substantiated by the findings of a German experiment designed to detect the gravitational signature of ‘super-dense astronomical objects such as neutron stars and black holes.’ But Jesus. What a mindfuck.
For me, this kind of stuff is so much fun because half the challenge—you know, aside from actually understanding half of the nuance of what’s going on—is figuring out how to talk about it like a normal person. This one has me stumped.
Fast-Forward/Rewind to the day I read the article…the day my life changed forever. We are all—truly—nobody, floating through the universe together.
- Hateball
February 16th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
http://trulyoutrageous.ytmnd.com/
from the inspirer/maker of the Truly Outgz fad.
February 17th, 2010 at 10:46 am
That is fucking crazy. That’s the type of thing that really blows you away the first time you hear it and really appreciate what it means – like when you learn that looking at the stars is actually looking into the past. And now that actually means it could be a past that’s in fact only a reflection of sorts of a past that really did happen. Oof.
February 17th, 2010 at 11:50 am
I think theories like this could be used as a scientific explanation for the “miracles” performed by Jesus( Note, I am not christian). If Jesus could perceive the real world of pure energy, he could manipulate our world as he saw fit. If he wanted to walk on water, that’s merely manipulating the energy to make the water solid enough or make himself light enough to walk upon it. Heal a sick person, multiply fish & bread, rise from the dead even. I’m not arguing the existence of Jesus, just that the theory of this article could explain how someone could really do the things he did. And wouldn’t this state of pure energy be like some kind of father, i.e. God in a sense? Didn’t the bible say that man was created in his image? To paraphrase, we are the footprint, God is the foot. Again, I’m not christian, I just think it’s interesting to apply the concepts from this post to Christianity.
February 17th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Lay off the Friskies buddy.
February 18th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
What does this mean for our existence. Are we even real?
February 24th, 2010 at 1:30 am
That image at the top + this post, and its replies = LOLZ
March 3rd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
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