{"id":23361,"date":"2016-03-10T11:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T19:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/a-strange-new-theory-of-how-space-time-is-emerging"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:48","slug":"a-strange-new-theory-of-how-space-time-is-emerging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/a-strange-new-theory-of-how-space-time-is-emerging","title":{"rendered":"A Strange New Theory of How Space-Time is Emerging"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cA metaphorical chip holding all the programming for our universe stores information like a quantum computer.\u201d This is the radical insight to the foundation of our Universe developed by Mark Van Raamsdonk, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of British Columbia, that says that the world we see around us is a projection from a set of rules written in simpler, lower-dimensional physics\u2014just as the 2D code in a computer\u2019s memory chip creates an entire virtual 3D world. \u201cWhat Mark has done is put his finger on a key ingredient of how space-time is emerging: entanglement,\u201d says Gary Horowitz, who studies quantum gravity at the University of California Santa Barbara. Horowitz says this idea has changed how people think about quantum gravity, though it hasn\u2019t yet been universally accepted. \u201cYou don\u2019t come across this idea by following other ideas. It requires a strange insight,\u201d Horowitz adds. \u201cHe is one of the stars of the younger generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re trying to construct a dictionary,\u201d says Van Raamsdonk, that allows physicists to translate descriptions of our complex universe into simpler terms. If they succeed, they will have found the biggest jigsaw piece in the puzzle of a Grand Unified Theory\u2014something that can describe all of the forces of our universe, at all scales from the atomic to the galactic. That puzzle piece is, specifically, something that can describe gravity within the framework of quantum mechanics, which governs physics on small scales. Such a unified theory is needed to explain the extreme scenarios of a black hole or the first moments of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n

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