Happy Quark Day!

Quarks are the building blocks of the universe. At least, from the human, physicalist perspective. From a quantum perspective, maybe not?

I don’t know. I’m just a geographer and the Information Physics Institute — which holds some unconventional beliefs about the universe being comprised of information and perhaps nothing more than a simulation.

So for Quark Day, I thought I’d make a map that shows how the Holographic Theory works. It’s got Earth in it for a second. And from there, everything disintegrates into two-dimensional information.

Just a heads up: works far better on mobile.

View Holograms Are Kinda Quary…

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Original Prompt

I would like to make a map for world quark day that plays on the holographic principle that the universe is really the out edge of a 2D surface that is projected like a hologram to appear 3D to us, and our consciousness.

Please come up with 3-5 interactive visualization techniques or ideas. They don’t have to be spatial data based, but rather, I’d like to use the web, free animation and css APIs, and perhaps a globe of some sort to visualize, and annotate, how the holographic universe theory works (an explantory diagram).

I’m thinking it will be a walk through (forward and backward outlining the analogy to a hologram (i.e., explaining how a hologram globe works for real, and then extending and expanding beyond to explain how the holographic universe would work.

When you provide your ideas: please explain the visualization concept, the level of complexity from a technology standpoint to get it to work and what stack is required, how it will work changing from mobile to desktop, and why and why you don’t think it will be good.

When you’re done, please tell me which one you would pursue assuming my goal is to put the least amount of work into it and get a fairly polished, cool looking explanation for International Quark Day. 🙂

Thank you!