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- Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The Holographic Principle (APOD 16 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 24
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Re: Why always the same multicolored image
Hey, I've got a question about these stereograms, or whatever they're called. Of course they were all the rage a number of years ago, but I've always been curious whether they need to be multicolored as they always are. I've never seen one in grayscale, or more "natural" colors. I assume ...
- Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The Holographic Principle (APOD 16 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 24
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Re: Event Horizon Not established nor holographic principle
If I smash myself with a trash compactor, my volume has decreased with the same surface area of material. The information content of me has decreased even though I have the same surface area. My unsmushed volume can hold more interactive information than my surface area. Smashed and smushed I have ...
- Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The Holographic Principle (APOD 16 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7261
Holographic Principle
Just to pick a nit (or a nat), the holographic principle allows that the area of a "normal sized computer monitor" can contain about 3x10^65 bits of information. That does not mean, as stated, that you can get that much information from the area. To recover all of the available information...