Briefly on the Principle of Holography

They say that something as small as a butterfly beating its wings in China can cause a hurricane  in America, so maybe we should go to China and kill all the butterflies, just to be safe.

(Ken Advent)

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Every minor part of an integral biohologram reflects the state of whole multilevel system. A dynamic multilevel (multiplex) biohologram reacts to any alteration of its parts changing the configuration of entire structure in response to any external/internal impact.

In developing systems of natural origin all components of their holographic entity are interrelated comprising a dynamic network. This Internet-like system of flows preserve its integrity and permanent functioning during whole life-cycle of a system. This system of mutually interacting physical waves, which 1) ensures the informational integrity within a body; 2) performs some regulatory and control functions and 3) is responsible for many “unusual” features of Life. Holography-based mechanisms within complex systems of natural origin act as wireless means of communication. This functional entity was named HIS (holo-informational functional subsystem).

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What is a hologram?

(widely accepted definition)

  • The hologram is not an image, but an encoding system which enables the scattered waves to be reconstructed in the form of a “virtual” 3-D image. Another definition of a hologram implies the process of recording and recreating complex three-dimensional wave fronts in space.
  • The whole scene can, in principle, be re-constructed from a single point in the recorded hologram. To demonstrate this concept, the hologram can be broken into small pieces and the entire object can still be seen from each small piece. If one envisions the hologram as a “window” on the object, then each small piece of hologram is just a part of the window from which it can still be viewed, even if the rest of the window is blocked off.
  • The object and the reference beams must be able to produce an interference pattern that is stable during the time in which the holographic recording is made. To do this, they must have the same frequency and the same relative phase (they must be mutually coherent). When two waves overlap, their amplitudes add at every point. This results in an interference pattern which records the relative phase relationships between the two waves, storing each individual wave’s characteristics.
  • The resolution of the image is reduced as the resolution of the recording medium reduces. The reconstructed hologram would be enlarged if those waves, which reconstruct the hologram had a higher wavelength.
  • The advantage of holographic data storage is that extremely large amounts of information are recorded using the volume of the recording media (instead of just the surface). Some materials can record a hologram in a very short time – they are used to produce dynamic holograms. The amount of processed information can be very high (terabit/s), since the operation is performed in parallel on a whole image.
  • In principle, it is possible to make a hologram for any wave.
  • Dynamic hologram implies a repeatable process of ”updates” (of static holograms).

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What is the holographic principle?

The holographic principle states that the description of a volume of space should be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region, preferably a light-like boundary like a gravitational horizon. For a black hole, the principle states that the description of all the objects which will ever fall in is entirely contained in surface fluctuations.

Holographic Principle is about encoding information from (D+1)-dimensional space onto D-dimensional space. It can be the interference pattern on a photographic plate from a three-dimensional object, or the entropy impressed on the surface of a black hole, or a physical theory translated into another form. Such principle is now embraced by some physicists, who claim that it will become part of the foundations of new physics, from which quantum theory and relativity may both deduced as special cases.

There is strong evidence that the area of any surface limits the information content of adjacent spacetime regions, at 10^(69) bits per square meter.

The physical universe is widely seen to be composed of “matter” and “energy”. In his 2003 article published in Scientific American magazine, Jacob Bekenstein summarized a current trend started by John Archibald Wheeler, a collaborator of Albert Einstein, which suggests scientists may “regard the physical world as made of information, with energy and matter as incidentals.”

The holographic principle may lie in the number of fundamental degrees of freedom involved in a unified description of space-time and matter.

More information about holographic principle can be found here > http://xxx.lanl.gov/pdf/hep-th/0203101v2

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