"It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.

If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all living in a giant cosmic hologram."

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

Darn, you beat me to it! Lol A fried of mine sent me this link a little while ago and I had not been able to post it yet.

For those of you who have not read this article yet, it represents an extremely important breakthrough. Here is the bit that is relevant to reality hacking:

There is a point in space/time where particles get so tiny that they stop occupying a specific solid location (local) and begin occupying all spaces at once (non local). When particles go smaller than the "Planck Length" they can no longer be measured in a specific, stable location. In short, the Planck Scale is as tiny as you can get in our physical world without disintegrating into quantum weirdness.

This line drawn in our universe by the Planck Scale is something my friends and I are now calling the "Planck Barrier." It is literally the boundary of our reality—the place where we cross over from predictable, lawful Newtonian rules and begin wading into the wild, "anything goes" world of the quantum.

The noise that the Germans have accidentally discovered (while hunting for gravitational waves) may pinpoint the "place" where reality stops being solid and becomes grainy and fuzzy. Think of Truman Burbank in The Truman Show running into the edge of his world with a boat and you'll have an idea of the kind of breakthrough we may be looking at!

The Germans are going to have to keep researching and making sure that the noise is not from an identifiable source. It's great that Fermilab is involved. (Fermilab had the largest particle accelerator in the world until CERN launched the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland)

Synchronistically, I saw an episode of Independent Lens regarding Fermilab the night before I was pointed to this article. It looks like they will be all but closing down because of the economy. However, the good news is that the scientists are very open about sharing information between labs so it is very likely that CERN will be able to pick up this information and really run with it.

Got a new update on this news item. It's simpler and easier to digest than the first release AND it has a picture of the array!

I don't know about any of you, but I had no idea how to picture the equipment in my head.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090203130708.htm

Here is another update/angle on the same story. The difference in this story (besides being the most recent) is that they are now beginning to specify the frequency ranges in which they are finding the noises.

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2009/03/holographic-noise.html

This article says that the noise is occurring in the 300hz to 1500hz range while another citation (a quote from a GEO600 paper posted on Wikipedia) said that the noise was in the 100 Hz to 500 Hz range.