Expert: James Gort - 12/23/2011

Question
The holographic black hole principle sounds like a record or dvd full of information but when activated/played is music  heard, sensed, felt and created from information stored unless triggered. So is this black hole - holographic principle black holes stored with information that when triggered like a needle to a record triggering information onto our 3 dimensional universe...And if the cosmologists are correct then what in a black hole is the instrument that reads that information to make it come alive as the needle or lazer in a record player or dvd player makes music come alive...What possible trigger, technology, actor, in essence what does the black hole use to activate this information into a 3d illusion of reality...What type of construct or type of specific energy or pattern of energy triggers this elevation of information into a 3d form.

Black holes have a purpose no doubt, absolute and certain they do, to recycle, to filter, to balance, to share energy across spectra, to take and give, to balance, but to be sure they are present to fulfill a role, an important vital core role...

So, do you agree with the Black Hole Holographic Principle and if so your thoughts on what makes the information rimmed around the black hole illuminate into the so called 3d holograph we call reality..

Answer
Hello Phil,

I'm afraid I don't agree or disagree with the Holographic Principle. I just don't know, and from what I've seen up until know, it's not knowable. Which means it's not science. It's philosophy, conjecture, or simply "a theory".

Science is experimental. Develop a theory or a model, make predictions, and test the theory (or model) via observation (which may be the result of experiment or simply observing nature through powerful telescopes). If the observations agree with the predictions - it's a "good" theory. As soon as they differ, one needs to search for a better theory. But in no case does science claim it knows "reality". That's not its job.

What are the predictions made by the Holographic Principle? I know of none. It reminds me of String Theory. I am a follower of Peter Woit, who wrote "Not Even Wrong" - questioning String Theory as science at all, since it appears to be non-testable. I would put the Holographic Principle in the same category.

So until this "Principle" can be tested by predictions and observations, I withhold all judgement.

Cheers,

Prof. James Gort