Q. How should we treat an electric hologram with Hashem’s name on it. Can it be turned off or cut?
A. A hologram is defined as a photographic image recording of a light field, rather than an image formed by a lens or a mirror.
Holography is a unique method of temporary photography whereby 3D objects are recorded using a laser and then restored as precisely as possible to match the originally recorded object. When illuminated via a laser, holograms are able to form an exact 3D clone of the object and duplicate its features. (Wikipedia and other sources)
In he holographic medium, for example the object produced by that process is usually unintelligible when viewed under a diffuse ambient.
However, although the images projected seem to the eye very real, there is nothing truly more physical to them than the common mirror view of the simple reflection in a mirror.
The popular accepted view of Poskin today is that since it isn’t much more hefty than the above, one may extinguish the hologram with Hashem’s name on it.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch
Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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