Our existence could be coded in a finite bandwidth, like a live ultra-high-definition 3-D video. And the third dimension we know and love could be no more than a holographic projection of a 2-D surface. A scientist’s $1 million experiment, now under construction in Illinois, will attempt to test these ideas by the end of next year using what will be two of the world’s most precise clocks. Skeptics of a positive result abound, but their caution comes with good reason: The smallest pieces of space, time, mass and other properties of the universe, called Planck units, are so tiny that verifying them by experiment may be impossible. The Planck unit of length, for example, is 10 billion billion times smaller than the width of a proton. Craig Hogan, a particle astrophysicist at Fermilab in Illinois, isn’t letting this seemingly insurmountable barrier stop him from trying. Hogan is following through on a radical idea to confirm Planck units with two of the most precise clocks in the world. Deemed holometers, each L-shaped laser interferometer will have two perpendicular, 131-foot-long arms to scan for pixelation in the very fabric of space and time. If it’s there, two laser beams (split from a single source) that run through the arms won’t hit a detector at the same time. Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2...solution/?utm_source=feedburner#ixzz13oHUfkTG
Wow, that is some very fascinating stuff I only know a little bit of physics, so this makes me wonder what the practical uses of understanding a planck would be, that is if they exist.
While it may not be useful in it's own right it contributes to a greater understanding of the universe.
what happened to String Theory? I was all about the whole thing being made of frequencies, music of the spheres, 1420mhz, etc, etc, etc.
