There has been some interesting physics in the news on this subject. Well, when I say news I mean… Stephen Colbert:

http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/

About 7 minutes in, there is an interview with Cornell Emeritus Professor Daryl Bem who found that, when students WANTED to see a particular kind of image, they could predict it with statistically significant accuracy.

In the same episode, the interview at the end (about :20 in) is with physicist Brian Greene who wrote “The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes” said “Everything around us may be a hologram. You are a bag of particles governed by the laws of physics.” Short clip of the interview only:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/

It turns out, Stephen Colbert does a lot of physics interviews. I got a lot of results for the search “Stephen Colbert physics”

Also, I just read Stephen Hawking’s new book “The grand design” It is very well written and understandable, and the section on the Heisenberg Principle of Uncertainty really underscored that if you are looking for a particular result, you are much more likely to get it. And how much the “laws of physics” that Brian Greene describes have changed over the centuries. Well, not changed… how our understanding has changed…