Welcome to Benji Bear and Friends
Graham and Elsa are pleased to welcome you to our website. Although this site is mostly used by Graham to host philosophy of science related stuff, you may come across some other interests of Benji's Friends.
We hope to make your visit enjoyable, enlightening, thought provoking and one that will fill you with wonder. Our approach to ScienceMost scientists hold firmly to a few key asumptions such as the world must be logical, and basic conservation laws and the idea that our our world is objectively real and physical.
Our approach is to be sceptical of even these core beliefs and explore all possibilities with an open mind. Although we entertain many wild ideas we are equally sceptical of claims that say if science is flawed then religion or magic need be true. Our motto is to explore every idea, even the impossible, then choose the least strange or otherwise appealing ideas to explore more deeply, but no idea is too crazy to be considered.
 Quantum Weirdness
It can seem at times that that a situation or object will act like a wave or a piece of matter depending on how or even whether we are looking at it.
Ben Scumacher sugests objects usually travel as waves of "stuff" but land as particular "things". He also seems to say that hidden information can travel backwards in time. In early 20th Century physics our ideas of absoluteness of values in time and space were undermined by spacetime relativity where the distance between two events in the 4D continuum would always be the same but whether the events were separated by space or time and even which event happened first may differ to different observers. Einstein's theories were not always popular. Wiki says: Wheeler was largely responsible for reviving interest in general relativity in the United States after World War II. After Einstein developed his spacetime ideas he worked on quantum physics which freaked even Einstein out. Since the advent of quantum physics many leading scientists now believe that our world is so strange that we need strange theories to explain our weird world but some believe theories should be no stranger than needed. It is where we draw this line between appropriately anti-intuitive and outright loony that we sometimes get heated debates. To understand how loony our theories need to be we need to understand what is so weird about our quantum world. Bears in the ParkBenji and a few select friends went on a field trip to the park for rest and recreation.
Even scientist bears have to get out of the lab sometime. 
What future do we want?
Forty years ago futurists and scifi writers saw a future of superhighways and skyscrapers as an exotic dream.
Today we dream more of ents and forrest elves or rolling hills of green and open skies where you can see the stars at night and breathe the air without choking. Before humans started fire farming central Australia, it was a giant swampy forrest with an inland sea. Giant marsupials such as giant kangaroos were in abundance. Today we have a desert where forests and giant grasslands once lived and the megafauna are all extinct. Australia's biggest land animals are the saltwater crocadiles. Benji and Gromwald want to flood the Australian desert and regrow the forrest again. They figure conservationist shouldn't complain because they would be putting Australia back how it was. They say an inland sea would be more fun than a desert, and much more fun for the fish and birds. They figure the crocks and canetoads might take over but the bears say they are willing to share. Today there are occasional flooding of inland Australia but the water table has been depleted by cotton farming etc. so the water quickly drains away.
Land of the Rabbits, Cats and Toads
Thanks to rabbits cats had plenty of food to spread through Australia. Australia is one of the few countries without wolves or large numbers of animals that like eating cats.
Cane toads and lantana also have taken on plague proportions in Australia, with the cane toad even adapting to the snowy mountain region. You are what you eat
Carl Copek sent us a link about a new type of string theory but it seemed to be more about string spaghetti and food, than superstrings. Gromwald says maybe we didn't read the story closely enough.
Benji says: if we are what we eat then we are all stars because we are made of star dust. Benji says the reason he is so sweet is because he loves honey cakes. Gromwald saw an add for Cactus juice that is supposed to be good for old teddy bears. Benji says some old bears are prickly enough without feeding them cactus juice. Discrete or digital worlds
In the later half of our 20th Century ideas from our digital information age began to filter their way into our ideas of the fundamental nature of reality. We knew quantum phyisics had things in clumps called quanta and that our computerized VR worlds had information stored and displayed in digitized clumps such as individual words made of bits (binary digits) and presented as pixels on a TV screen. Matthew Raspanti, for one, began to wonder if we might be living in a digital world. Today's 21st Century phyisics is filled with analogies from computing and VR worlds. The Holographic Information theory of black holes was used by Stephen Hawking to allow Hawking radiation to evaporate off black hole event horizons. When working with Peter Forrest in 2000, Graham Partis got the impression that if digital rounding errors were allowed FTL and other impossible jumps. We see such impossible jumps in quantum tunneling, black hole evaporation and even electron jumps between atomic shells. Without these flaws in the code of our world we would have no atoms or molecules. Our laws of chemistry and particle physics would not exist. The world would be very unfamilar to the one we know.
Those of you who have seen the movie based on Raspanti's work "The Matrix" would be aware that the hero of the movie was able to hack into small errors in the coding of the VR world to create magical powers for the hero. It may be that many of the our the laws of chemistry and physical properties of materials in our world would not exist without the existence of imperfections in our worlds coding, but these same glitches may also be played with to create new scientific marvels that will seem like magic to us. If it was not for such glitches the recent black holes created in atom smash labs would not have evaporated in moments. Chemical bonds might not exist without the ability for electrons to jump shells? |
Purr - spective
Mouse Dependant Realism. Mice can be real fun to chase, or tasty. It depends how tired or hungry you are. - Cheshire Cat 
"Eye of God" The Great Puss is watching us.
Someones watching?
If life is a game, can I play too?
Extra Links
What killed the MegaRoos ?
Queensland University of Technology have gathered proof that the great extinction might have been produced by a large drought, but Benji thinks the fire farming techniques of early human settlers would not have helped the giant roos survive the droughts.
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Superstitions
Science is often about how reliable a method is if something works almost all the time for everyone, the idea is OK. If a bunch of people claims something works but other people try it and fail, scientists are usualy sceptical of whether the thing really worked in the first place. Mlodinow for instance believes global temperatures follow a drunkards walk path and humans often see patterens that are not really there. Proponents of magic say it is like quantum states, if you try to pin it down or understand how it works the magic is lost, others says most magic are illusionist tricks. We say if kissing a four leaf clover or wearing your "lucky underwear" helps gives you confidence to play better tennis then don't mess with something that works. Just don't get upset if the rest of the world doesn't copy your idea. If a bunch of nuts start copying you but wearing their lucky underpants outside their pants like superman or on their heads, you likely have unwittingly started a cult.
Worshiping Science & Technology
Science in a sense is an organized belief system.
Like with religions we need to be wary that we do not get fanatical about our beliefs.
The proliferation of weapons and conflict on our planet is arguably as much an outcome of worshiping technology and corporate greed as it is of religuious fanaticism.
We do not need to turn the whole planet into a warzone or concrete jungle.
Benji says we only need enough technology to make our lives nice.
Like the song says we do not want to turn paradise into a parking lot.
Like with religions we need to be wary that we do not get fanatical about our beliefs.
The proliferation of weapons and conflict on our planet is arguably as much an outcome of worshiping technology and corporate greed as it is of religuious fanaticism.
We do not need to turn the whole planet into a warzone or concrete jungle.
Benji says we only need enough technology to make our lives nice.
Like the song says we do not want to turn paradise into a parking lot.
Evolution of Cults
There is a story of a "prophet" in India who saw girls groomed from birth to become wives of dirty old men. He believed a loving God would be disgusted with this and he gained many followers for his cause.
Years later, after the prophet died, a religion worshiping the prophet arose and argued that people should wear their hair and eat the same breakfast as the prophet. Eventually they formed terror cells to blow up planes and kill any infidels who refused to emulate the prophet. This is not the group now accused of the 911 bombings but most cults and suspect religions likely start as a collection of like minded parties supporting a good cause. Susan Blackmore seems to believe that organized religions "hijack" in-built mystical experiences of oneness with the nature. Any organized group such as labor unions or sporting clubs can grow cultlike tendencies and coerce people to support leadership in the name of a cause. Most religious leaders claim to value peace but some seem to believe peace is achieved by conformity of thought or by killing those who risk disturbing the peace by thinking differently. NB: No offense meant to the majority of parishioners, supplicants, ministers, priest and holy persons who live lives of peace and service to the needy. The majority of people dislike war and would be friends with their supposed enemies, especially if they got to know them. E.g. http://iranlovesisrael.com/ |
Jesus supposedly said
"beware of men in robes". We aslo suggest: beware of silly hats, and talk of "Holy Wars". Not every priest is a pedophile, egomaniac or warmonger. The current Pope, as far as we know, has not started any wars, but the Catholic and Protestant churches could do better handling wayward priests. |
Where did we come from?
Some people believe God made the first humans a few thousand years ago.
Some scientists say there is a couple from northern Africa who all humans are related to who lived in Northern Africa, perhaps hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago. The Bible and other mythic stories suggests messengers from the heavens (UFO aliens) who rode chariots of fire (rocket ships?) interbred with humans. Most evolutionary scientists and biologists think that is a bit far fetched but Carl Sagan suggested alien DNA gets introduced into our genes through Flu viruses from comets and space dust. Others say life is just a dreamlike computer game and that some clever programmer wrote.
Where do you think we came from?
Some scientists say there is a couple from northern Africa who all humans are related to who lived in Northern Africa, perhaps hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago. The Bible and other mythic stories suggests messengers from the heavens (UFO aliens) who rode chariots of fire (rocket ships?) interbred with humans. Most evolutionary scientists and biologists think that is a bit far fetched but Carl Sagan suggested alien DNA gets introduced into our genes through Flu viruses from comets and space dust. Others say life is just a dreamlike computer game and that some clever programmer wrote.
Where do you think we came from?
Quantum information
The digitized shading of Bob is exagerated to emphasize a point. The screen you are viewing we likely a digital one creating smooth looking images that on close inspection prove to be made of individual pixels. In "The Grand Design" the authors hint that our world may be a large version of Conway's Game of Life, which is a world where a few simple rules applied to dots turned on or off can (in principle) evolve in a world of intelligent organisms competing for survival.
When we watched Ben Scumacher's lectures, Ben's lecture style reminded Graham of that of a Baptist preacher. In the old testament the qubit was a measurement similar to a foot. (Those of the younger generation used to the metric system may occasionally hear of a horse measured in hands.) Qubits were a commom measurement in Biblical times, and a word familiar to Ben. Apparently his supervisor used the term q-bits to refer to quantum binary digits. Ben apparently thought it was a great name and suggested to everyone he knew that the ancient measurement used in designing Noah's ark might be used in a new context.
Much of modern physics today centers around the quantum bit and quantum information theory. Not only has this idea developed quantum computers but in some theories our world is viewed as a VR simulation following quantum logic using quantum bits. Usha Raut may not be convinced that our world is a VR computer simulation; but if our experiences are from a simulation Usha says it would be one running on a quantum rather than a classical computer.
David Deusch's youtube lectures on quantum information are excellent. From what we can work out, quantum logic has been augmented by the introduction of imaginary numbers in much the same way as Einstein / Wikowski spacetime transformed our understanding by having time values multiplied by the square root of negative one. We understand it also operates from matrix multiplication so A times B need not always equal B times A.
In classical logic there are about 3 or 4 basic operations or logic gates such as 'and', 'or', 'not' and maybe "nor" which is a combination or not and 'nor'. Benji gets a litttle confused at times but he heard David say there were just as many new operations possible on quantum bits and classical logic was a subset of quantum logic. David Deustch even got one of the new operations named after him.
David Deutsch's model seems to involve Hugh Everett's Many Worlds idea but in Benji's TOE we assume the many worlds are possibility or state / game spaces, which only become real when explored by observers. The difference may be subtle. Lee Smolin once said he prefers a "many observers" model which (David said) may have referred to many minds. There are however some strong arguments for "many world" related theories with the strongest perhaps being single photon interference. We once heard a rumor that David liked the many minds model but from our conversations he seems to prefer the many worlds approach. Benji has his own ideas about what a many minds theory would be like if he dreamed it up, but we have yet to study the standard many minds theory to see if it resembles Benji's ideas. We understand Many Minds arose out of Many Worlds and Decoherence interpretations so there may be some overlap in the ideas.
If the VR models are true such worlds might be like computer games that can be as mundane or exotic as you like.
The one argument that makes Graham suspect that our world may be real, rather than a dream, is the fact that it is not a little more exiting than it is. If this life were a movie script it might have a few more exotic embelishments. Others says we may have gotten tired of blockbuster stories and this is the multiverse version of The Sims or Neighbours.
When we watched Ben Scumacher's lectures, Ben's lecture style reminded Graham of that of a Baptist preacher. In the old testament the qubit was a measurement similar to a foot. (Those of the younger generation used to the metric system may occasionally hear of a horse measured in hands.) Qubits were a commom measurement in Biblical times, and a word familiar to Ben. Apparently his supervisor used the term q-bits to refer to quantum binary digits. Ben apparently thought it was a great name and suggested to everyone he knew that the ancient measurement used in designing Noah's ark might be used in a new context.
Much of modern physics today centers around the quantum bit and quantum information theory. Not only has this idea developed quantum computers but in some theories our world is viewed as a VR simulation following quantum logic using quantum bits. Usha Raut may not be convinced that our world is a VR computer simulation; but if our experiences are from a simulation Usha says it would be one running on a quantum rather than a classical computer.
David Deusch's youtube lectures on quantum information are excellent. From what we can work out, quantum logic has been augmented by the introduction of imaginary numbers in much the same way as Einstein / Wikowski spacetime transformed our understanding by having time values multiplied by the square root of negative one. We understand it also operates from matrix multiplication so A times B need not always equal B times A.
In classical logic there are about 3 or 4 basic operations or logic gates such as 'and', 'or', 'not' and maybe "nor" which is a combination or not and 'nor'. Benji gets a litttle confused at times but he heard David say there were just as many new operations possible on quantum bits and classical logic was a subset of quantum logic. David Deustch even got one of the new operations named after him.
David Deutsch's model seems to involve Hugh Everett's Many Worlds idea but in Benji's TOE we assume the many worlds are possibility or state / game spaces, which only become real when explored by observers. The difference may be subtle. Lee Smolin once said he prefers a "many observers" model which (David said) may have referred to many minds. There are however some strong arguments for "many world" related theories with the strongest perhaps being single photon interference. We once heard a rumor that David liked the many minds model but from our conversations he seems to prefer the many worlds approach. Benji has his own ideas about what a many minds theory would be like if he dreamed it up, but we have yet to study the standard many minds theory to see if it resembles Benji's ideas. We understand Many Minds arose out of Many Worlds and Decoherence interpretations so there may be some overlap in the ideas.
If the VR models are true such worlds might be like computer games that can be as mundane or exotic as you like.
The one argument that makes Graham suspect that our world may be real, rather than a dream, is the fact that it is not a little more exiting than it is. If this life were a movie script it might have a few more exotic embelishments. Others says we may have gotten tired of blockbuster stories and this is the multiverse version of The Sims or Neighbours.
Holographic Event Horizons
Bekenstein's Bound
The information on the skin or event horizon of a black hole can be thought of as 2D encoded data that projects what the 3D interior of the black hole is like.
We understand "Bekenstein's Bound" related to the amount of information such horizons or skins could hold; which of course relates to the total data inside the black hole.
As mentioned numerous times in Benji's TOE and related websites, the humber of dimensions we say the world has, can sometimes be an arbitrary choice. In Raspanti's (computer VR) model, our world may "really" be a one dimensional "bitstream".
On the other hand an 11 or 24 D superstring or Loop Gravity topology may be used to model worlds that look a lot like ours.
The information on the skin or event horizon of a black hole can be thought of as 2D encoded data that projects what the 3D interior of the black hole is like.
We understand "Bekenstein's Bound" related to the amount of information such horizons or skins could hold; which of course relates to the total data inside the black hole.
As mentioned numerous times in Benji's TOE and related websites, the humber of dimensions we say the world has, can sometimes be an arbitrary choice. In Raspanti's (computer VR) model, our world may "really" be a one dimensional "bitstream".
On the other hand an 11 or 24 D superstring or Loop Gravity topology may be used to model worlds that look a lot like ours.
Black Hole Evaporation
As discussed in "Holographic Information" there can be more than one explanation for the same outcomes or structure. In Feynman diagrams for instance we can think of certain "quasi" or "virtual" particles as being either something similar to positrons moving forward in time or electrons moving backwards in time. In either case these entities are the opposite of normal electrons.
Another explanation has such particles having antigravity properties with "negative energy".
We understand Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne had a sleight falling out over aspects of negative energy. In some thermodynamic models we assume empty space has an ambient temperature or zero point energy.
If we use the analogy that these anti-partilces have negative mass and that we occasionally have we might imagine scenarios where something temporarily with negative mass might be repelled out of a black hole. We assume Hawkings analysis would be far more complicated with Feynman diagrams and relativistic quantum theory but the end result is the same. Due, possibly to, some temporary, intervening state, some sort of apparent FTL effect allows things to seem to escape black holes. One moment we have a balck hole later it has evaporated.
FTL however is supposedly impossible, or at the very least "no useful information" is allowed to travel faster than light or backwards in time.
Graham is trying to find a way to convince the universe that "next weeks lotto numbers" are not "useful information".
Another explanation has such particles having antigravity properties with "negative energy".
We understand Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne had a sleight falling out over aspects of negative energy. In some thermodynamic models we assume empty space has an ambient temperature or zero point energy.
If we use the analogy that these anti-partilces have negative mass and that we occasionally have we might imagine scenarios where something temporarily with negative mass might be repelled out of a black hole. We assume Hawkings analysis would be far more complicated with Feynman diagrams and relativistic quantum theory but the end result is the same. Due, possibly to, some temporary, intervening state, some sort of apparent FTL effect allows things to seem to escape black holes. One moment we have a balck hole later it has evaporated.
FTL however is supposedly impossible, or at the very least "no useful information" is allowed to travel faster than light or backwards in time.
Graham is trying to find a way to convince the universe that "next weeks lotto numbers" are not "useful information".
Negative Matter
There supposedly are theoretical particles such as excitons and color-glass condensate which are rather exotic, but Benji Bear and Friends often use the term "exotic matter" to refer to negative matter associated with negative energy, which in theory may have antigravity or other effects related to faster than light transport such as warp drives, wormholes and other FTL effects which may enable "paradoxical time travel".
We recently saw an article claiming a warp drive may be possible without negative energy. We understand there is some debate whether negative matter/energy antigravity effects can enable FTL or only allow speeds approaching C. Feel free to email benji@benjibear.com with any information on this contraversy.
We recently saw an article claiming a warp drive may be possible without negative energy. We understand there is some debate whether negative matter/energy antigravity effects can enable FTL or only allow speeds approaching C. Feel free to email benji@benjibear.com with any information on this contraversy.
Frozen Stars
Some suggest that nothing actually gets to the event horizon.
We understand the term "frozen stars" refers to the situation that when things approach the speed of light time slows such that objects with mass can never quite reach C. This results in time becoming frozen from many perspectives at the event horizon.
The other thing that happens as things get faster is they become more wavelike or smeared.
Relativity however also says that from any freely floating frame the same laws of physics should normally apply, so from the point of view of the person falling into a black hole they should not notice any sudden strangeness. Admittedly small black holes can have major gavitational differences that may turn a person into spaghetti, but supposedly one as large as the black hole in the center of our milky way galaxy the trip may be smooth enough to survive the transit beyond the event horizon. Falling over niagra falls can be less painful than being sucked through a bath plug or window of a presurized jet. Likewise passing the event horizon may feel totally normal until you likly get crushed near the singularity.
Relativity and time dilation can get confusing at the best of times, but as any good relativistic scientist knows when we enter black holes the math gets extra complicated; Then try to introduce quantum aspects and you may have a brain meltdown.
We understand the term "frozen stars" refers to the situation that when things approach the speed of light time slows such that objects with mass can never quite reach C. This results in time becoming frozen from many perspectives at the event horizon.
The other thing that happens as things get faster is they become more wavelike or smeared.
Relativity however also says that from any freely floating frame the same laws of physics should normally apply, so from the point of view of the person falling into a black hole they should not notice any sudden strangeness. Admittedly small black holes can have major gavitational differences that may turn a person into spaghetti, but supposedly one as large as the black hole in the center of our milky way galaxy the trip may be smooth enough to survive the transit beyond the event horizon. Falling over niagra falls can be less painful than being sucked through a bath plug or window of a presurized jet. Likewise passing the event horizon may feel totally normal until you likly get crushed near the singularity.
Relativity and time dilation can get confusing at the best of times, but as any good relativistic scientist knows when we enter black holes the math gets extra complicated; Then try to introduce quantum aspects and you may have a brain meltdown.
Although Benji does not use the precise mathematical foralisms by Bekenstein and Hawking or even that of Susskind,
the work of such experts in Holographic Information have at least inspired or guided our investigations.
Our approach is mostly an alegorious one, and as Leonard Susskind says: "all analogies have their limitations".
One way of understanding how various dimensional levels may interact is by thinking about how computer programs store and present information.
Most VR programs have a basic 3D model of the world to be presented then use 2D "skins" to add detail. They then use 3D to 2D conversion function to decide what screens will be seen then may produce a 1D bitsream to IO devices. If we assume for a moment that the AI (Artificially Intelligent) charactors in games like World of Warcraft are conscious they could likely experience a 3D world and be unaware of the other dimensional processes or structures. Similarly a player may see a 2D screen but envision the world as a 3D environment, because the world is obviously 3D in nature.
The world we live in appears to have 3 space and 1 time dimension but there are many competing multi-dimensional models some with extra times which are used to model our existence. Einstein's 4D spacetime continuum has a different 3D world for each "inertial frame", in a similar way that a 3D world in VR gets projected on to a 2D TV screen or monitor. Different perspectives will project on to a different 2D view of the same 3D world.
In Benji's TOE we try to combine ideas from different models but as seen in the blurb in the above diagram, sometimes completely different explanations can fit the same observable outcomes. We may watch a robot playing chess but the computer inside the robot may only be aware of doing math calculations. An alien on the other hand who met humans for the first time might think we are just cleverly programmed robots with no internal feelings. It is very often the case that we can interpret the same data in may different ways. Our sun for example according to some theorists has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein did. Others say it is just an unthinking machine or a big flame.
The Holographic Principal basically says just from the data we can not tell whether our world is 1D, 2D, 3D .... 11D, ...24D or infinitely dimensional. This question was raised many years ago by Plato in his Cave analogy, where Plato suggested that our world is a fuzzy shadow of a higher dimensional world. In Benji's TOE we use the term "shadow projection" for situations where the world we see has less dimensions that the "true" reality. Conversely we use the term "holographic projection" where the world we see appears to have more dimensions that it "really" does.
E.g. a world created by a 1D bitsteam in a VR game may be presented on to a 2D screen is an example of "holographic projection".
2D to 3D software is a form of "holographic" projection, as is a 2D encoded image used to project a 3D hologram.
Conversely a magnifying glass that projects a 2D image on a pavement or wall is an example of shadow projection, as is 3D to 2D software.
In Graham's explanation of Hawking radiation we assume the world is virtual much like Raspanti's Virtualism. We assume the real world might be 1D bitstream (or other lower dimension that the apparent world). We assume the higher dimensional worlds such as our 4D+ spacetime are "holographic projections" (as we define the term).
To simplify things by ignoring the time dimensions (which we believe we need at least two for symmetry and practical purposes) and assume event horizons are 2D skins similar to those used in VR games to add texture or detail. Like VR games we can further assume the 2D skin can be represented by a 1D image of arbitrary thinness. This thickness we will asume to be around the Plank scale. To further simplify we will assume this 1D stream is a digitized bitstream. If we assume this data is in quantum bits we get close to quantum information theories of David Deutsch and others where we might apply laws of information phsyics such as informational entropy, but more importantly we have situations where we might have rouning events. E.g. In some cases splitting a single bit may result in two bits (or pixels) being formed in other cases bits may be destroyed but on average all things being equal in most situations we will get approximal conservation of information as bits being destroyed roughly matching those created.
the work of such experts in Holographic Information have at least inspired or guided our investigations.
Our approach is mostly an alegorious one, and as Leonard Susskind says: "all analogies have their limitations".
One way of understanding how various dimensional levels may interact is by thinking about how computer programs store and present information.
Most VR programs have a basic 3D model of the world to be presented then use 2D "skins" to add detail. They then use 3D to 2D conversion function to decide what screens will be seen then may produce a 1D bitsream to IO devices. If we assume for a moment that the AI (Artificially Intelligent) charactors in games like World of Warcraft are conscious they could likely experience a 3D world and be unaware of the other dimensional processes or structures. Similarly a player may see a 2D screen but envision the world as a 3D environment, because the world is obviously 3D in nature.
The world we live in appears to have 3 space and 1 time dimension but there are many competing multi-dimensional models some with extra times which are used to model our existence. Einstein's 4D spacetime continuum has a different 3D world for each "inertial frame", in a similar way that a 3D world in VR gets projected on to a 2D TV screen or monitor. Different perspectives will project on to a different 2D view of the same 3D world.
In Benji's TOE we try to combine ideas from different models but as seen in the blurb in the above diagram, sometimes completely different explanations can fit the same observable outcomes. We may watch a robot playing chess but the computer inside the robot may only be aware of doing math calculations. An alien on the other hand who met humans for the first time might think we are just cleverly programmed robots with no internal feelings. It is very often the case that we can interpret the same data in may different ways. Our sun for example according to some theorists has an IQ higher than Albert Einstein did. Others say it is just an unthinking machine or a big flame.
The Holographic Principal basically says just from the data we can not tell whether our world is 1D, 2D, 3D .... 11D, ...24D or infinitely dimensional. This question was raised many years ago by Plato in his Cave analogy, where Plato suggested that our world is a fuzzy shadow of a higher dimensional world. In Benji's TOE we use the term "shadow projection" for situations where the world we see has less dimensions that the "true" reality. Conversely we use the term "holographic projection" where the world we see appears to have more dimensions that it "really" does.
E.g. a world created by a 1D bitsteam in a VR game may be presented on to a 2D screen is an example of "holographic projection".
2D to 3D software is a form of "holographic" projection, as is a 2D encoded image used to project a 3D hologram.
Conversely a magnifying glass that projects a 2D image on a pavement or wall is an example of shadow projection, as is 3D to 2D software.
In Graham's explanation of Hawking radiation we assume the world is virtual much like Raspanti's Virtualism. We assume the real world might be 1D bitstream (or other lower dimension that the apparent world). We assume the higher dimensional worlds such as our 4D+ spacetime are "holographic projections" (as we define the term).
To simplify things by ignoring the time dimensions (which we believe we need at least two for symmetry and practical purposes) and assume event horizons are 2D skins similar to those used in VR games to add texture or detail. Like VR games we can further assume the 2D skin can be represented by a 1D image of arbitrary thinness. This thickness we will asume to be around the Plank scale. To further simplify we will assume this 1D stream is a digitized bitstream. If we assume this data is in quantum bits we get close to quantum information theories of David Deutsch and others where we might apply laws of information phsyics such as informational entropy, but more importantly we have situations where we might have rouning events. E.g. In some cases splitting a single bit may result in two bits (or pixels) being formed in other cases bits may be destroyed but on average all things being equal in most situations we will get approximal conservation of information as bits being destroyed roughly matching those created.
Benji's Blog
Warning !! We have had some very strange posts
on Benji's chat section we labelled "Benji's Blog".
Daniel writes "My friend Tracy got blown up with
one of Russell's antigravity units and she survived
with electric shock and radiation burns"
Daniel also said people had been killed in similar experiments.
Graham is trying to ascertain what lab (if any) it might be.
Benji says it might be teddy bears from a parralel dimension, or the future.
Graham says if it is a hoax, it is a very strange one.
One post was from a Chien Yi Lee to "Dr. Zadeh and Friends" regarding postscience.com.
We contacted and made friends with the post-science folks but they seem not to be the origin of the other strange comments.
At one stage we passworded our chat page to see if the strange messages continue.
If you have problems with the chat page, just email benji@benjibear.com if you want to chat.
Our preferred video chat is Oovoo.com. Please email first to book video chat times.
Benji is rumored to be using Facebook chat. Benji also opened a MySpace account, but doesn't use it much.
Benji's friends often chat on the "What is Time?" and similar discussions on LinkedIn.
Also see our sister site: Megaphysics.info.
on Benji's chat section we labelled "Benji's Blog".
Daniel writes "My friend Tracy got blown up with
one of Russell's antigravity units and she survived
with electric shock and radiation burns"
Daniel also said people had been killed in similar experiments.
Graham is trying to ascertain what lab (if any) it might be.
Benji says it might be teddy bears from a parralel dimension, or the future.
Graham says if it is a hoax, it is a very strange one.
One post was from a Chien Yi Lee to "Dr. Zadeh and Friends" regarding postscience.com.
We contacted and made friends with the post-science folks but they seem not to be the origin of the other strange comments.
At one stage we passworded our chat page to see if the strange messages continue.
If you have problems with the chat page, just email benji@benjibear.com if you want to chat.
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Benji is rumored to be using Facebook chat. Benji also opened a MySpace account, but doesn't use it much.
Benji's friends often chat on the "What is Time?" and similar discussions on LinkedIn.
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