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I don't see any reason at all to see this, whether or not it be true, as justification for belief in "paranormal" things. After all, if it's true, all the laws of physics we know still hold, and those phenomena still have no reasonable explantion...

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Perhaps some of them would have an explanation, though.  Take ghosts, for example..  Maybe when we die a reverberation of our energy stays  behind, a slice of the holographic shape that we took in life- still 'us' in every sense, just as each piece of the holograph of a rose cut in half still remains a whole rose.

  I find it interesting how so many people think of themselves as two different parts: a body, and a soul.  Personally, I think the two are one, and are inseperable.  Do our physical bodies vanish when we die?  Of course not.. energy is indestructable.  I don't see why spiritual energy would be any different.  My two pennies. 

ferago2 said:

I doubt that most (any?) of us have the post graduate work needed to understand the math and physics behind this. If you want my kneejerk, college sophomore response, it sounds possible, but theories in the world of quantum physics are a dime a dozen and I feel like the only reason that this one here is getting attention is because it makes for some cool ideas.

That being said, this doesn't necessarily provide any credence to ESP, or reality as totally subject or anything like that if true. Just because the term "hologram" is used as a useful metaphor doesn't mean that the ideas of "illusions" it invokes are accurate. I don't see any reason at all to see this, whether or not it be true, as justification for belief in "paranormal" things. After all, if it's true, all the laws of physics we know still hold, and those phenomena still have no reasonable explantion...

As far as "The problem (I think), is that because people have 'proved' things like telepathy, esp, blah blah blah as impossible, based on beliefs or teachings and yadda yadda, (You're following me, right?), some of these people, not wanting to admit to themselves that their whole structure of reality is but an illusion, will not let themselves admit to this being true."

The same could be said for people who believe this theory over others, lacking the technical knowledge to evaluate it on its merits, and accept it only because it confirms, or provides a potential explantions for, their quasi religious beliefs.

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chronic777 said:

Einstein also stated for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction so although he said nothing can travel faster than light he had already stated the truth, and its not exactly traveling isit, its reaction and action on a universal scale, our actions arent traveling anywhere they just cause the reaction.

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Icelander said:

Noone could ever make me disbeleive everythings connected. Noone ever no matter what the proof was,

You would make a splendid fundamentalist christian.

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I really really wouldnt

I beleive what i beleive through personal experience, not blind faith.

I also beleive nothing can travel faster than light, but i also beleive for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

And these actions do not TRAVEL they just are. Theyre not information travelling at a speed, they are actions/reactions. Just energy.

I agree with einstein 100%.