Quantum Mechanics and String Theory for Dummies
Posted on 18 August 2005 by Gnorb || Topic(s): Life.Just a quick note, if you’ve ever been curious about this whole “quantum physics” and “superstring theory” deal, head on down to PBS’s Nova site. There’s a great online show there called The Elegant Universe, based on the book by Brian Greene. It’s a great way to get going on a really complicated subject that can be rather fun to learn about.
If you’d like to know more about the subject, feel free to research online, but for God’s sake, don’t waste either your time or money on the movie “What the Bleep Do We Know?!” That has to be by far one of the absolute worst pieces of propaganda crap I’ve ever wasted two hours on. Crappy acting, false statements, non-sequential conclusions… complete waste of time. It might be worth watching if you want a good laugh, and don’t care much about what you put in your brain.
Finally, you can get a copy of PBS’s The Elegant Universe at Amazon.com
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Pamela
I’m curious about your insight! In what ways was “What the Bleep Do We Know?” wrong or incorrect?
Pamela
amateur string theory fan
Redlands, CA
Dec 27th, 2008
Gnorb
Hey, Pamela:
Better than any answer I could give is this explanation from Wikipedia. Form the linked article:
Basically if you understand string theory, even at an elementary level, you begin to see very quickly that the film is more new age propaganda than science.
Dec 28th, 2008
Spyros
touché to that my friend “what the bleep..” is full of a whole lot of crap and implications to pseudo studies and jam packed with propaganda to all sorts of subjects!!!!!!
May 29th, 2009
Steven Kivel
The funniest thing in “What the Bleep” i thought was how often the used the trite “Down the rabbit hole” but i agonized through the bs (for my brother Dan) and got to the end where the “Authorizes” credentials were given NO ONE sited in the movies as “The head of Quantum Research” were exactly that but rather “The head of Quantum Research for Metaphysics University Of Nevada” or some such crap not an actual accredited ANYTHING in the movie… “What The (Bleep) Do We Know?” was a streaming pile of (Bleep)
Jan 19th, 2010
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