{"id":4897,"date":"2010-10-26T07:53:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2014-10-28T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T19:25:57","slug":"diversion-is-it-2-d-is-really-3-d-or-3-d-is-really-2-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/26\/diversion-is-it-2-d-is-really-3-d-or-3-d-is-really-2-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversion: Is it &#8220;2-D is really 3-D&#8221; or &#8220;3-D is really 2-D&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his 24 Oct 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/10\/24\/fermilab-is-building-a-holometer-to-determine-once-and-for-all-whether-reality-is-just-an-illusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a>, SteveG points us to a Popular Science article, <a title=\"Link to malware containg article removed on 2014\/10\/28\" href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\">Fermilab is Building a &#8216;Holometer&#8217; to Determine Once and For All Whether Reality is Just an Illusion<\/a>. SteveG quotes, &#8220;More specifically, they are trying to either prove or disprove the somewhat mind-bending notion that the third dimension doesn\u2019t exist at all, and that the 3-D universe we think we live in is nothing more than a hologram.&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>To which I say, &#8220;Blah, blah, BLAH!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I already KNOW that the boundary between 2-D and 3-D is porous and you will, too, if you watch Brusspup&#8217;s video, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GCKbHz3JuFQ\" target=\"_blank\">Incredible Stereo Illusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-RichardH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 24 Oct 2010 post, SteveG points us to a Popular Science article, Fermilab is Building a &#8216;Holometer&#8217; to Determine Once and For All Whether Reality is Just an Illusion. SteveG quotes, &#8220;More specifically, they are trying to either prove or disprove the somewhat mind-bending notion that the third dimension doesn\u2019t exist at all, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-richardhsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18630,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/18630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}