Comments on: Quantum Mechanics and String Theory for Dummies

By: Steven Kivel

Steven Kivel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:00:04 +0000

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)

By: Spyros

Spyros — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:26:28 +0000

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!!!!!!

By: Gnorb

Gnorb — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:10:14 +0000

Hey, Pamela: Better than any answer I could give is this explanation from Wikipedia. Form the linked article:

"the movie illustrates the uncertainty principle with a bouncing basketball being in several places at once. There's nothing wrong with that. It's recognized as pedagogical exaggeration. But the movie gradually moves to quantum 'insights' that lead a woman to toss away her antidepressant medication, to the quantum channeling of Ramtha, the 35,000-year-old Atlantis god, and on to even greater nonsense."

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.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:15:35 +0000

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