From the desk of Mr. Paul Griebner, Drawer 4

Drawer 4 is the middle drawer on the left and is possibly my favorite drawer. Aside from introducing the third main subject in this documentary, the drawer is chock-full of curious articles. Therefore, I will now step aside and let you rummage.


The average desktop computer contains 10x more computing power than was used to land a man on the moon.






Linda.



Other peoples pictures














The musings of a 1970s Highschool Newspaper























One of the World's many unreturned RSVPs



Drawer 5 is another drawer with supplies, some which I wouldn't be able to bring myself to use.

From the desk of Mr. Paul Griebner, Drawer 1

So here is the center drawer of the desk, this time a bit more organised.
We find the usual desk drawer stuff: menthol candies, brass fasteners, and clippings of military rankings.
There's also the two seemingly identical rulers, one from a funeral home and the other from a pharmaceutical company.

The other thing to point out here is the introduction of James, whose name we find on the cover of Life magazine. Could this desk have belonged to him instead?









And here's a preview of drawer 2

Irritated Flatlanders

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126911.300-our-world-may-be-a-giant-hologram.html

I've read this article twice now and so far have taken away the notion that people become quite incredulous at a hypothesis that violates Newton's Clockwork Universe (like the second law of thermodynamics).

People like classical mechanics, the laws of motion, and universal gravitation. These are things that can be observed by the average person and make everything appear to be in order (nevermind how that order does not allow for free will).

Quantum Mechanics becomes incredibly frustrating, what with all its subatomic particles, uncertainty principles, and living-dead cats. Now QM hits us with the possibility of actually being two-dimensional...

"Fermilab scientists have found anomalous "holographic noise" in their GEO600 gravitational-wave detector that suggests the possibility that we live in a hologram."

Chances are offense is really taken at the word "hologram" and not at the articles attack on the reader's perception of physics.
Somehow "hologram" has become synonymous with a falsehood rather than what it actually means.
I blame 80s cartoons for that.

So, instead of questioning what would happen if you dropped a planck length in a dark theatre (and how much planck time it would take to recover it), people instead question whether or not this means they should bother going into work on Monday.

To me, this article explains a lot about gravity.

People walk around with the common misconception that we can freely move about in three-dimensions.
Aside from physically jumping into the air, movement in the third dimension is somewhat limited without the assistance of airplanes, stairs, and trees.

If we actually existed as bits of information being beamed across the Universe from a two-dimensional plane, it's easy to imagine how moving off of this 2D plane would be difficult, but not impossible.

Even though I'm not sure about this holographic space-time I'm not outraged by it.
These ideas and notions don't come out of nowhere. They are based on previous discoveries, theories, and equations found to be true about our Universe.