Why You Might Just Be A Hologram | Answers With Joe

As crazy as it sounds, the entire universe - including you - could just be a hologram. And here's the science to back it up.

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Information is basically the mathematical term for matter, basically the arrangement of the atoms and subatomic particles and their position in spacetime.

So we know that information including light is sucked into a black hole at such a rate that nothing can escape it.

But where does it go from there? According to our favorite half/man, half/robot, it basically ceases to exist.

Which violates some pretty serious laws of physics, especially some quantum physics.

Because a fundamental law of quantum mechanics says that information is encoded into the wave function of subatomic particles, which according to the rule of unitarity, means that information is conserved in the quantum sense.

In other words, information has a mathematical copy in the quantum world, so no information can ever really be lost.

But general relativity, which Hawking specializes in, says that the information is lost.

And that became known as the Hawking Paradox. Because when you’re really smart, you get to have things named after you.

So along came Leonard Suskind, a quantum physicist who had his own idea about black holes.

Coming from the quantum side, he postulated that all the information doesn’t fall into the black hole at all, but instead gets encoded into the event horizon and what falls into the black hole is a projection of that information.

Kind of like the surface of the black hole is a film strip, and it’s being projected into the inside.

Now, I need to say, this involves math far beyond my pay grade… and abilities.

But suffice it to say, Suskind was able to back this up with math that showed this could be possible, effectively tying together Relativity and Quantum mechanics.

This means that inside a black hole is a perfect projection of what’s on the outside. So there’s 2 of everything.

If you were living inside a black hole, you would never know that you were just the projection and the real you was up there somewhere.

Which leads to the next obvious question… Are WE just a projection?

How do we know whether we are real or the copy? There’s absolutely no way we could possibly know.

So the idea was met with a healthy amount of skepticism. Still, it was solid enough that mathematicians got to work to perfect the theory. And someone cracked it.

Juan Maldecena mathematically proved the holographic principle in what he called the AdS/CFT correspondence, the conjecture about the equivalence of string theory on anti-de Siter Space, and a conformal field theory defined on the boundary of the AdS Space.

So with the math in place, the holographic principle won out, leading even Stephen Hawking to concede, saying that going against it was one of the biggest blunders of his career.

[jtarrats]

People who are able to use maths to discribe the Universe are amazing . Glad to have them in our species

[synchro]

Could it be that we are both the projection and the original at the same time? (kind of like looking into a mirror)

[dvl]

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we're just the imaginations of ourselves. Here's Tom with the weather.” - Bill Hicks

[LandyAndy]

Oddly enough, as a child it occurred to me that every perception of reality that I had was purely a function of my apparent consciousness - so the only thing that I could reliably be sure of was that I believed that I exist - which doesn’t necessarily require a physical body. So how did I know that I, or indeed anything, were actually real?
Im sure a shrink would have hours of fun with that one!

[michaelrichardson]

Imagine this, what if black hole were created by some entity in another universe as a way to learn about our universe

[brendanbeaver]

We would have to be both necessarily. Assuming the analogy holds up in this sense, whatever reality existed on the event horizon wold be projected as it exists into the black hole. The projection would be exactly the same as the reality. You just have to imagine what happens if we decide that we are the projection: if indeed we are, there must be a "real" us at the same time deciding that same thing to project us from.

[JuanAlcazar]

I can imagine kids using this excuse to skip class. "I didn't go but the other me went so I'm going to learn something anyway"

[jamessutton]

"I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss." - Cypher, the Matrix

[GregsGarage]

This is what I just heard: "La, la, la, la... bacon."

[javiertorres]

It feels real enough for me, that’s good enough. What’s relevant is the satisfaction I’m about to get with my cup of coffee.

[XT]

what if the event horizon is the index and the black hole itself is the codec, energy is the content which makes the index back to meaningful matter. kind of like how software compression works?

[takeonme]

Is bacon from projected pig or projected bacon? Who eats it? You or your projection? Food for thought... 😊

[is-be]

We are all immortal spiritual beings. Reality is an illusion, allowing us a playground to keep from getting bored.

[sanders]

Joe takes everything in my head and eloquently articulates it and solidifies it on a YouTube channel.

[geopoliticsexplained]

Some of my food is losing its taste. So wouldn’t that mean that I’m the projection and the table salt is the real deal?

[monessalabras]

yes guys! Im the reason for all the headache u have right now!
ur welcome :D

[mizmatch]

why don't you have 300 million subscribers??

[KeithReid]

I actually LOL'd pretty hard at 2:57. Nicely done Joe. Nicely done.

[markkim]

Greetings human being, I love your videos.
You've opened my mind to things I've never even thought about (and now i want bacon dammit)

Anyways, I was wondering if you can do a video about future weapons in space, and see how realistic and unrealistic the weapons in popular sci-fi actually are. The most obvious being Star Wars, but can you also talk about the stuff in Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, the list goes on, and a movie called the Iron Sky? It's a minor film that actually has some cool near-future looking spaceships with railguns and nukes and gatling guns rather than lasers. Also your ideas on how space combat would actually turn out to be.

I know the Universe documentary series did an episode on it, but I just want to hear your thoughts on this.

I don't know, maybe i can add what you say into my pseudo-hard-scientific novel (due to my inability to maths and my love for history).

And I may be going over my head, but can you consider talking about shields and force fields a little bit? Maybe about the DARPA or US army project on them.

Also, Australia supports your love for bacon

[XxTheAwokenOnexX]

I never bought into the hologram theory, but i do believe in the multiverse theory, and there are multiple copies of ourselves somewhere out there, albeit all being different versions of ourselves from species to species, and that no two versions of ourselves are the same.

That said, i have long thought it possible that our universe is indeed living inside a massive blackhole, although the mathematics involved with that theory are so far out there, it is almost impossible for that theory to be true, then again given how little we know about our universe, or the multiverse nothing can be ruled out, until it has been proved, or disproved.

Thankyou for another great video Joe 🔥👍