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Hungarian physicist (5 June 1900 – 9 February 1979) awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of holograms in 1947.
Holography is a photographic process that uses a laser to construct three-dimensional images in space. It records the interference patterns between two halves of a laser beam, one half of which is directed at the image being photographed while the other at the holographic emulsion.
What’s intriguing here is that the information provided by the two beams, essential for reproducing a three-dimensional image, remains enfolded, distributed throughout the entire hologram. If we break off a small piece of holographic negative and split it with a laser so that the photographed image is reproduced, the piece, while representing only a small fragment of the entire plate, reproduces, projects and displays the complete image (the apple in the example above). The only difference is that the totality of the image will be seen from the angle of the fragment. The more pieces of the plate that are holographically united, the more angles the image can be seen from, and consequently, the better it can be understood. There are philosophical implications to this discovery. Since the information is distributed throughout the entire plate simultaneously, the whole is in the part and the part is in the whole. Strange, huh? This is diametrically opposed to what the pyramidal system that governs our lives tells us, a system in which those that hold the power in society (the top of pyramid) have access to all levels, while those who lack power (the bottom) are stuck where they are. In scientific terms, it is as if to say: “I know I have cells, but my cells don’t know that they have me.” As we will show in the next chapters, this way of viewing reality is totally outdated and forms part of an old paradigm that is starting to loose all its arms to fight with.
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