Meet The Man Behind The Holodeck, Part 1 – Star Trek

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Meet The Man Behind The Holodeck, Part 1

BY STARTREK.COM STAFF

MARCH 11, 2014 3:34 AM PDT

I got to be friends with a lot of scientific people, like Isaac Asimov. Isaac and I became friends around 1966, or around there. I got involved in 3D photography starting in 1960 and by the end of 1963, holography was invented, and I was really interested in that. So I called up the researcher who had made the first hologram, Emmett Leith, at the University of Michigan. We became very good friends over the phone and I started learning all about holography. He totally opened up my mind into a new world of physics. I’d been studying physics, but I didn’t understand anything about interference phenomena and holography, and he taught me all about it. So, by 1964, I’d set up my own holography lab in New York, and that was the first holography lab in New York. I was maybe the sixth person in the world doing holograms.

My holography work evolved into understanding a holographic model of the universe and a holographic model of how the human brain works. So I wrote some papers on it and, in 1973, I was asked to deliver the paper at a conference in Czechoslovakia, in Prague

Anyway, attending this conference was a woman named Melanie Toyofuku, who was partners with a guy named Andrija Puharich, and they were working with the psychic Uri Geller to try to do some experiments that would document Geller’s psychic abilities. I proposed some experiments in my lab, to see if he could influence the interference patterns caused by laser beams. So we did those experiments.

Toyofuku was good friends with Roddenberry, right?

DOLGOFF: And so she started telling him about the experiment we were doing with the holography and the lasers. She came to the lab and saw all these incredible holograms that we’d made, of all different sizes, big and small, three-dimensional images floating in air, and so on. This was 1973. She told Gene all about this and he said he wanted to meet me. So she set up a meeting in New York, at a hotel. Gene and his wife, Majel, were there. I went there to the hotel with Melanie, and I brought a whole bunch of holograms and a laser, and I set it all up in the hotel. And we spent the day looking at the holograms and then going through theory. I explained how it worked and how the interference pattern generates the reconstruction of whatever you made the hologram of. And I introduced the concept that I’d come up with, which was matter holograms. At that point, holograms were used to generate three-dimensional images, but you could pass your hand through the images. So, with matter holograms, I’d realized that matter is made up of interference patterns of energy as well, and so you could actually record a hologram of the structure of matter and then reproduce the matter in the same way. So I then explained to Gene, not only is this the basis to teleportation in the future, but you could make a holographic environment in which people could interact with the objects and the scenes and everything, and create a recreation room, a training room, an area that could be for entertainment. We kind of agreed on the name “holodeck.” I put the holography part in there.

How receptive was Roddenberry to the concept?

DOLGOFF: Oh, he was totally into it. He said, “This is along the lines of what I was trying to think about. I just had no idea how this could be… or could this be?” He said, “I didn’t want to be so ridiculous that it wasn’t right and there wouldn’t be something like this in the future at all.” I said, “No, you’re on the right track completely. This is exactly what will happen,” and I explained, technically, how it would work.

Meet The Man Behind The Holodeck, Part 2

BY STARTREK.COM STAFF
MARCH 11, 2014 11:20 PM PDT

OK, so, in layman’s terms, what is holography?

DOLGOFF: Holography is the recording and playback of a pattern of energy by recording the interference pattern of energy interacting with a reference beam. So, if you have an object and light is hitting that object, for instance, then the light will bounce off and that light has special information on it now that it picked up by hitting the object. There are only three kinds of information that it picks up. Each light ray has a specific angle, a specific brightness and a specific color. And that’s it. There’s also polarization, but that’s irrelevant because we don’t perceive polarization. Those three things, which I call the ABC’s of light – angle, brightness, color – are the only things that change when a light ray comes from the light source, let’s say, your ceiling light, and hits the object. The only thing that changes about the light is those three factors. So now they’ve bounced off of you and it’s the same light, but now they have different angles, brightnesses and colors.

If your eyes intercept that light, you see whatever it came from. So if I intercept that light, I see you. And if you interfere that light with a constant light beam, which is called a reference beam, it creates a pattern, an interference pattern, and that pattern can be recorded. Once that pattern is recorded it’s called a hologram, and the hologram now, if you shine that reference beam on it, with no information, the hologram itself will change those light rays and re-impart the proper angle, brightness and color, if done properly, to each ray. So now, if the same light information is coming towards you, you’ll look at it and you’ll still see the same thing. Now that’s a hologram for recording and playback.

Which ultimately leads to the interference pattern…

DOLGOFF: Now, I just described it using light, but if you use the kind of energy that’s higher in frequency, so that it can interact with the smaller features of matter, like gamma rays, you get the interference pattern – which again is the angle, brightness and, instead of color, frequency – of the rays that are coming from the small structure of the atoms, you record that pattern, you play back the same information, the same angle, brightness and color values of those small waves and, if you create what’s called a real image, it can reconstruct the object itself. So if you have a bunch of guests for dinner and you’re short a chair, you take out a hologram of the chair, it reconstructs another chair, and now that guest can sit on that chair because it’s got physical form. If you need food… this is how the replicator works on Star Trek. You have a hologram of an apple. So now the hologram reconstructs an apple. It’s just from energy, but once you eat the apple it has a taste and the texture and the nutritional value of an apple. So it’s basically all the same technology that applies to the replicator, transporter and holodeck.

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So, now you can see that they can create a hologram of ANYTHING, FOOD, ENVIRONMENT, EVEN THE UNIVERSE!!  They create what they call a “Real Image”  BUT IT IS NOW REAL!!!!   I don’t ccare how much it looks, smells, tastes, moves, feels like the real thing… IT IS STILL JUST AN IMAGE!!  

BOY!  That gives new meaning to the FOURTH COMMANDMENT that says:

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:    EXODUS 20:4

Now, NONE OF US on September 11, 2001 had any clue what type of technology the world’s governments had at their disposal.  Nor did we have any idea of the depth of the GLOBAL CONSPIRACY.  
As a child, I remember my Daddy talking about the Illuminati and the plan to divide the nations into 10 kingdoms, but I never paid much attention to that.  My Dad was a prolific writer and very community minded  He was involved in local politics and even helped a friend get elected to City Manager in our town.  He was an actor as well, in community theater. So, he talked alot about a lot of things.
I am grateful that because of what I heard as a child, when I ran into the wall that is the TRUTH, I was not totally overwhelmed or shocked.  I knew that there was and underlying evil in the world.  
For many of you, this stuff is all pretty new and hard to handle.  I liked to say it will get easier, but I would be lying.  The more you learn, the more horrific and disgusting it all is to discover.  I hate to be the bearer of bad news… but things are about to get much worse.  It is not going to get any better until JESUS COMES and puts his foot on the Mt of Olives.  So, gird up your loins that build up your most Holy Faith.

Start today, by looking at the fact that they can control YOUR perception of everything.   They not only can control how you respond to what you see, they can control what you see and how you see it.