As I sit here to write, ideas pop in and out of my conscious thought. As I sit here and contemplate, the light bulb goes off in my mind, projecting mental images in my head. The nature of reality is quite trivial, there are so many avenues and rabbit holes to travel down one soon gets lost in ideas and explanations for why things exist the way they do. The philosopher sits in deep thought and asks himself, how did we get here, how did everything come into existence? Please bring light to my troubled thoughts he says to himself! No sooner does he have an epiphany, an aha moment in time and so begins the story of light, quantum entanglement, and 3d objects.
Light is a force carrier, it carries throughout the universe both information and energy. Although it has no energy of its own, it is the fuel that gets things moving so to speak. As light interacts with quantum(very small) fields, it gets them excited. These fields propagate into particles and eventually atoms that we come to know and understand. Just like the light bulb going off in your head leads to ideas and pictures in your mind, light does the same thing with the universe along with the other force carriers.
The holographic principle states that the universe is made up of a two dimension surface or brane. When studying black holes, one can deduce that the information of the black hole is inscribed on the area of the black hole horizon, not the volume that is inside of it. The equation is as follows:
S≤ AK / 4GH/c^3where
S = entropy
A = area
K = Boltzman’s Constant
G = Newton’s Gravitational Constant
H = Plank Length
At the smallest level of known existence, the universe acts as a hologram, a set of information that governs the universe. When studying holograms, one knows that light plays a major factor in how they operate. As one shines light on a 2d plate of information, out pops a 3D model that is correlated to the 2d set of information. Bringing one back to the concept of the holographic principle, the information of the 3d universe lives on a 2d boundary in a lower dimensional space. The math is equivalent, the 3-d brane we live in is the same as the 2-d surface it projects from.
The boundary of information describes the geometry of space-time and 3d objects that live in higher dimensions within it.
Quantum entanglement, the concept that Einstein calls, “spooky action at a distance,” describes how qubits, or bits of information behave. Scientists used to believe that two qubits had to be 0 or 1,independent of one another, but in an entangled system, the two or more qubits are inherently linked to one another regardless of how far they are from one another. They can be both 0 and 1 at the same time until they are measured. In an entangled state, qubits are glued or woven together, like a perfect lattice or web. Entangled qubits propagate from the boundary of 2d spacetime and glue together all that exists within the geometry of 3d space. If entanglement is lost, so is the 3d space we live in. It is like a blanket woven together. If you tear a few strands of fabric, the whole blanket is destroyed.
As one can see light, the holographic principle, and quantum entanglement, are all interconnected. Light, or photons are a carrier of information between the 2d boundary to the bulk, or 3d space. Light is an example of bulk physics that is “painted” on the boundary of space-time. The holographic principle is the concept that 3d space is not connected to its volume, but is directly correlated to the 2d boundary of space time. What is painted on the boundary is a set of information that governs the universe’s geometric shape in 3 dimensions. Quantum entanglement is the glue that holds the puzzle pieces of 3d space together. It states that at the most fundamental level, bits of information are woven together, directly connected to one another regardless of the locality of one another. They interact what seems to be instantaneously with one another, and if entanglement is lost, the 3d universe falls apart with it.
At last the philosopher rests, finally satisfied with the answers that he found. The nature of reality is what he seeks to find. No sooner does he find answers, that new questions form in his mind, but today is but one day in a lifelong journey toward absolute truth.
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