Do we live in a holographic universe? Let’s find out with the Holometer!

What if I told you that the world you live in is only a 3D hologram on a 2D surface?

Actually, we don’t know if this is actually a thing yet, but there are several mainstream hypothises that go so far as to say that all of reality is in fact a holographic projection. Scientists at Fermilab’s Center for Particle Astrophysics have developed a device called a holographic interferometer, or”Holometer”, to try and discover the “pixels” of the universe, theorized to be the size of the Planck Length (the smallest size science has been able to measure) at 10 trillion trillion times smaller than an atom.

The way the experiment and Holometer works is with two interferometers placed close to each other, each firing a 1 kilowatt laser at a beam splitter. After being reflected back, they recombine the beams and measure the fluctuations in the beams. What they’re looking for is vibrations that cannot be accounted for by normal matter, as they’re measureing at a frequency high enough that the motions of matter will not be likely to cause them. Any other possible causes of the vibrations (such as radio waves or interference by electronics) will be accounted for, and if they find noise vibrations that they cannot account for, or compensate for, it is their hope that they are detecting something fundamental about nature.

Data from the Holometer experiment should be coming in within the next year, so we will keep up to date on this exciting experiment.
WOAH!