|
| “
|
As we examine the
fabric of the cosmos ever more closely, we may well find far more
surprises than anyone ever imagined. Take me, for example. I seem real
enough, don't I?
Well, yes. But surprising new clues are emerging that everything, you
and I, and even space, itself, may actually be a kind of hologram.
That is: everything we see and experience, everything we call our
familiar three-dimensional reality, may be a projection of information
that's stored on a thin, distant two-dimensional surface, sort of the
way the information for this hologram is stored on this thin piece of
plastic.
[THE FABRIC OF THE COSMOS: WHAT IS SPACE?]
The
PBS series "The Fabric of Space"
is the greatest series about
space, the cosmos, and Einsteinian stuff I have ever watched.
That show Morgan Freeman does? I thought that was good, but it's
now relegated
to C- mediocrity by comparison.
I'm speaking not as a physicist or
mathematician— I chose my college major on the basis of the fewest
number of required math credits (Journalism=0), but as a regular guy
who is fascinated by it all. Longtime habitués know of my
interest in the subject. My
heroes are people who can write
this stuff
like they're writing a short
story. Or people who could build a computer. They are
gods. |
|
Anyway, what makes this series so great is its use of ingenius
comparative narrative and graphics to let us dummies grasp
"space-time," and all the other mind-blowing stuff .
| “
|
DAVID
KAISER (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): It's mind-blowing that
you and I will not agree on measurements of time. Isn't time separate
from us, right? Why should my measurement of time depend on how I am
moving, or how you're moving? That, that doesn't make any sense.
|
” |
You can watch all of them here
(I've watched the first episode 10 times (I go to bed listening). It
won't make sense, but it doesn't make sense to anyone. It is
through scientific rigor, and I don't mean the Algore-AGW crap, that we
know it's sound and immutable physical law. Until God changes
things again. . But Wait! That's not what this is
about. The
begetting of a television series. This is brilliant. The
core concept comes from the opening quote.
| “
|
....
everything we see and experience, everything we call our familiar
three-dimensional reality, may be a projection of information that's
stored on a thin, distant two-dimensional surface, sort of the way the
information for this hologram is stored on this thin piece of plastic
|
” |
No less a brainiac than Stanford's Leonard Susskind says he's inclined
to accept the "hologram" theory as real. It means that, in
this illusionary world we live in, everything that has happened, or
will happen, is already catalogued and stored (it's how Santa
Claus KNOWS!) . So here's my idea for the television series.
I'm going to call it THE INFO FARMER.
It's about a guy who finds a way to slice time in a manner that allows
him to "mine" the genealogy of every person who ever lived. DOB,
name, parentage, death, etc. A Mormon's dream. In the first
episode, our hero the Info Farmer (his name is William Boyd (after my
favorite cowboy) releases this startling news to the Daily Planet.
Dwight David Eisenhower died in Nantes, France, on
January 19th, 1945!
Would you watch this show (on HBO) to find out what happened? I think
you would. The stuff you can do with this device are
endless. Now ... I need one of two things to bring this to
fruition.
- $20 million seed money for development, or
- Somebody to read this and fly me out to
Hollywood, and buy the series with me as executive producer.
I think you call this "networking." Wire me at pecksnif-AT-verizon.net.
Drinks on the house!!
|
|
” |
|
