The science blogosphere, skinny from all those climate change studies, periodically binges on the results of theoretical physics experiments that undermine our native understandings of the universe. There was the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment that seemed to show that future events can cause past ones and the quantum entanglement experiments showing that distant particles can affect one another simultaneously — something Einstein famously referred to as “spooky action at a distance.”
The latest major finding is the opposite of mindblowing. It takes cerebellums exploded by the suggestion that our entire universe is a hologram and carefully pieces them back together.
Scientists at Fermilab tell us that an experiment designed to test the so-called “holographic principle” found no evidence that the universe is an illusory 3D projection of information encoded at the distant edges of the universe.
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