One of the scientists interviewed is John Hagelin who, besides being part of the TM cult surrounding Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, presidential candidate of the Natural Law Party, and Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace is a rather prominent particle theorist. Fred Allen Wolf I had it recommended to me by no less than three people. [an error occurred while processing this directive]. But quantum mechanics rules out the possibility of hidden variables. His list of "worst abusers" includes inspirational author Deepak Chopra, the best-selling book "The Secret" and the whole field of Transcendental Meditation. He announced in 1994 (one year after the study) that violent crime had decreased 18%. Wow, indeed! A moment in which 'the mathematical formalisms of quantum mechanics [] are stripped of all empirical content and reduced to a set of syrupy nostrums'. Presentations ranging from "The Secret" to "What the Bleep Do We Know?" "What the Bleep" begins in NOVA-like fashion: galaxies swirl and scientists--we aren't told who they are until the end--expound on quantum mechanics and the nature of the universe. The film surpassed all expectations; it was certainly the stupidest thing I can remember seeing in a movie theater, and thats saying quite a lot (I see a lot of movies). Since its release in April 2004, this independent film has become a cult hit, playing to packed houses and grossing over $7.5 . The main thing to know is that "observation" is a bad word for the process which goes on which we have inherited from the days when quantum mechanics was first discovered, and is unfortunately a bit easier to teach in introductory courses than decoherence. It sounds reasonable, and familiar. Within several weeks, the film had appeared in a dozen or more theaters (mostly in the western United States), and within six months it had made its way into 200 theaters across the US. That beliefs about who one is and what is real are a direct cause of oneself and of one's own realities. The Bleep in a Nutshell: 1. After a lesson in quantum mechanics from a precocious kid on a . Not Even Wrong Blog Archive Hidden Dimensions, Rachels Musings Rabbit Holes and Other Oddities, Not Even Wrong Blog Archive Philosophy of Science on Blogginheads.tv, For "The Baby Goes Out With The Bathwater" Crowd - SLUniverse Forums. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when she begins to question her role in life, her relationships with her career and men and what it all means. Only the Shaman knows, and we're about 500 years too late to ask him. It's certainly not. Who believe, in all kinds of things(God maybe?). What was new? As the movie did, this book compels listeners to ask themselves Gre. What the Bleep Do We Know was directed and produced by Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente and William Arntz, all of whom were students of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment. "I begin the book with a quote from Feynman that says, 'Reality takes precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled,'" he told me. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. 2. Invariably only about half the people tested ever notice a woman in a gorilla suit walking across the middle of the screen during the game. Producing, scripting, and co-directing the film, What the BLEEP went on to become a global phenomenon, with well over 100 million viewers experiencing the BLEEP. We asked some of Britain's best scientific brains to give us their verdicts, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. Dr Dispenza claims (correctly) in the movie that brain scans PET (Positron Emission Tomography) and Functional MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) show that the same part of your brain lights up whether you're looking at something or just remembering it. As the layers to her everyday experiences fall away insertions in the story with scientists, and philosophers and religious leaders . improve functionality and performance. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle argues that its impossible to track the momentum and position of a subatomic particle. And you'd do the study without knowing what had been 'said' to the water specimens, so your subjective opinions wouldn't colour the results. Unfortunately, it also completely misunderstands it. But we behave like classical objects for a reason: We're big, we have lots of particles, they interact. http://unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=36&si=770458&issue_id=7565, http://dftuz.unizar.es/~rivero/research/simple.pdf, Not Even Wrong Blog Archive Down the Rabbit Hole. We're not using either superconductivity or superfluidity yet on the scale that I think people thought we might. The observer can't be ignored." But to insist, as one on-screen interviewee does, that the material world around us is just one "possible movement of consciousness" undermines the possibility of any objective, external reality--something fundamental to many religions and to science. But it's quite a leap to say the brain doesn't know the difference between vision and memory. It's truly amazing that you can separate two elementary particles that were originally tied together, and often make a measurement of one particle that instantly affects the other, even if it's on Alpha Centauri. What the Bleep Do We Know was directed and produced by Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente and William Arntz, all of whom were students of Ramthas School of Enlightenment. Z. Knight and heavily features commentary from 'Ramtha', an ancient Atlantian general who is apparently speaking through Knight. Moreover, the movie proposes no plausible physical mechanism by which thoughts influence matter. Can the weirdness of quantum mechanics make you well, or make you wealthy? Not exactly, Amit. That sounds like magic. For starters you'd have to take a lot of samples from different parts of each ice specimen. He even called in to a radio program the director was on to discuss this and was cut off. Of Hagelins thousands of citations, how many are from the Ellis/Nanopoulous et al paper mill? It's used as an excuse to be even weirder. Quantum physics tells us that reality isn't fixed subatomic particles only come into existence when they are observed and 2. One has already been recognized: If we do carefully prepare quantum systems, and keep them isolated, we can perform quantum magic technologically potentially on scales that we haven't been able to do before. In the last of a series of columns written for Scientific American, Krauss says "no area of physics stimulates more nonsense in the public arena than quantum mechanics." yeago works Blog Archive Jesus, Buddha, Ken Wilber?? [12][13] Lisa Randall refers to the film as "the bane of scientists". 8. What the Bleep Do We Know!? According to an article in Fortean Times by David Hambling, the origins of this story likely involved the voyages of Captain James Cook, not Columbus, and an account related by Robert Hughes which said Cook's ships were "complex and unfamiliar as to defy the natives' understanding". And while I dont think supersymmetric GUTs are anywhere near as promising as many people seem to think, they are a much saner idea than many that dominate research these days (take the Landscape, please). "Contrary to ordinary beliefs, quantum physics is very predictive," Dr. de Gouva continues. 2) "What the Bleep Do We Know" has sure got a lot of people talking and thinking. Even followers of spiritual traditions that believe in worldly illusion will have problems with "Bleep." Is that last line The fact that someone who spouts such utter nonsense can get a Ph.D. from Harvard and be one of the most widely cited authors on supersymmetric models is pretty remarkable some sort of strange attack on SUSY models? And any Cognitive Behavioural Therapist can help us to change the way we see things by changing our thought patterns. Filmed to promote a new age philosophy based on a very, very broad interpretation of quantum physics, the movie was funded by J. Human everyday life consists of many routines and necessary things that are mostly physical such as work, school, a number of chores or minor responsibilities, and hopefully sleep. For traditional Christians, God is God not because your brain is making him up, but because he is. Quantum mechanics is crazy, but it's just crazy enough to make the world still be sensible at a macroscopic level, the level that we experience. There's nothing wrong with that. What the Bleep Do We Know!? But are there new, weird applications that people might see that have an impact on everyday life, beyond the woo-woo? Andrew B Newberg, (MD, Radiologist), in What the Bleep Do We Know? ft. indoor riding arena once used for horse training which was refurbished and floored . http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faith (accessed: April 20, 2009)A note about Fred Wolf's qualifications: He has a Ph.D in Theoretical Physics from UCLA in 1963, although he has not worked in laboratory endeavours since that time. Thanks to Pylon Sentinel for pointing this out.A link to his Wikipedia page is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Alan_Wolf "Physical reality is absolutely rock solid, yet it only comes into existence when it bumps up against another piece of physical reality like us, or a rock." Your session to The Christian Check my single page unpublishable http://dftuz.unizar.es/~rivero/research/simple.pdf. We Wertheim continues that the film "abandons itself entirely to the ecstasies of quantum mysticism, finding in this aleatory description of nature the key to spiritual transformation. "I create my own reality, says quantum physics," intones one expert, and the viewer could be lured to accept this as proof. It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don't understand it. Quantum mechanics, the theoretical framework of contemporary physics, is a probability algorithm. There were many more, but I will leave them for others. Short Range Tests of Newtons Inverse-Square Law. [16], David Albert, a philosopher of physics who appears in the film, has accused the filmmakers of selectively editing his interview to make it appear that he endorses the film's thesis that quantum mechanics is linked with consciousness. She works as a free-lancer for an agency, where her boss is played by Barry Newman. This is the first coronavirus vaccine approved by the FDA, and is expected to open the door to more vaccine mandates. Awash in New Age theorizing, real world science and the intellectually unfathomable notion of quantum mechanics, What the 'Bleep' Do We Know!? I'm always up for a good New Age flick, even one masquerading as a documentary. Do We Know!?) This is the person who teaches the brain science in RSE. "[15], Bernie Hobbs, a science writer with ABC Science Online, explains why the film is incorrect about quantum physics and reality: "The observer effect of quantum physics isn't about people or reality. " " " !". is a book of amazing science, and now the international bestselling book is available in paperback. We might be able to create quantum computers, for example, that will simultaneously do many different calculations at once, because the quantum world is capable of doing many things at the same time.