Our Universe May Be a Giant Hologram--Samantha Wiktor
I think it’s very interesting how Greene explains his life growing up and how it affected him in his daily life as an adult. He questions the limitations of human perception and knows, even at a young age that our minds are limited by what we see. He says the word “universe,” actually means “all there is.” So to say that the notion that more than one universe exists is a contradiction in itself. We can not have confidence in an alternate universe when this one that we know of, are familiar with, and have grown up in, is all that we’re set up with. We are unable to live with a level of certainty due to the fact that our universe is being questioned. All of these questions being asked about our universe and the parallel universe we live in reminds me of the movie, Inception. In this movie the characters explore new and different realities and allow themselves to live and be apart of somewhere completely new and different, with each level of their understanding and thinking being questioned. Just watching the movie I was constantly confused and frustrated. The different levels of thinking were maddening to never be sure of how or where your true person originated would be too frustrating. How can we take something that is so familiar to us and transform it into something different? We would constantly be living a life of confusion and I think that would eventually drive us all mad.
I think that having a good mixture of certainty and bewilderment in our lives is what keeps us grounded and sane. In “Our Universe May Be a Giant Hologram,” Physicist Brian Greene shows that a level of bewilderment as a child gave him the drive to pursue the career he has and to be curious enough to do research like that in the article. Bewilderment allows us to question things and the make advances in life that lead to certainty. Being certain about different things, however, could be necessary to allow us to go through with our daily lives. If we were only in a state of bewilderment constantly, we would end up questioning everything. Certainty allows us to have trust, even in the simplest things. I think that if we had one and not the other in our lives, we would end up going crazy. If you were completely certain about everything, you would have no reason to try and figure things out on your own. If you were completely bewildered by everything, you probably couldn’t handle daily life.
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