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Old 11-01-2009, 09:39 PM   #60
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Originally Posted by calvin-c View Post
As to how much science I know, I at least know enough to tell that something which has been demonstrated in the laboratory, regardless of the name that's applied to it, is not fantasy.
If you are trying to say (as I have been thinking, correct me if I'm wrong) that "real" 3-D images have been projected into clear air by lasers, making a visible image like in Star Wars, Star Trek, or similar, then you do not know what the hell you are talking about, plain and simple. You are making a fool of yourself. Yes, the holograms on credit cards are real holograms-- it is your silly science fiction fantasies that are not real holograms-- those are NOT REAL.

"3D holograms" are stored in crystals, and thus store data in 3 dimensions, not in 2 like a holographic film like that used on credit cards. "3D holograms" are NOT free-standing displays of laser light floating in the air-- and they never will be, as I have already explained that only very dangerous, high-energy lasers have visible beam paths in clear air. That is not an engineering issue, that is a fundamental physics issue. Your sci-fi fantasies will never come true. Yes, it is possible to make volumetric displays, but they will always be confined within something-- inside a glass cylinder or sphere, or inside a case with a projector and a spinning mirror, for example. But there will never be a device that you hold in your hand that projects visible, 3D laser holograms.

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