Diversion: Is it “2-D is really 3-D” or “3-D is really 2-D”?

In his 24 Oct 2010 post, SteveG points us to a Popular Science article, Fermilab is Building a ‘Holometer’ to Determine Once and For All Whether Reality is Just an Illusion. SteveG quotes, “More specifically, they are trying to either prove or disprove the somewhat mind-bending notion that the third dimension doesn’t exist at all, and that the 3-D universe we think we live in is nothing more than a hologram.” SteveG also points to a 45-page (FORTY-FIVE!) proposal for the experiment and, over the phone, he chastises me for not having sufficient scientific curiosity to read either his post or that 45-page proposal.

To which I say, “Blah, blah, BLAH!”

I already KNOW that the boundary between 2-D and 3-D is porous and you will, too, if you watch Brusspup’s video, Incredible Stereo Illusion.

-RichardH

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2 Responses to “Diversion: Is it “2-D is really 3-D” or “3-D is really 2-D”?”

  1. SteveG on 2010-10-26 7:07 pm

    Where is the smiley icon? You always want me to give humorous posts away by putting that flag on the post.

    Sharon figured it out before I did.

    There is a difference between illusion and real physics.

  2. SteveG on 2010-10-26 7:59 pm

    The real question is “How do you skew the viewership statistics?”

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