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What the Bleep |
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Can water be turned into crystals by mind power alone? At the urging of several readers of Truth-Driven Thinking, I went ahead and rented What the Bleep Do We Know from Net-Flix recently. Like a NOVA show on PBS, it's an innovative presentation of "scientific" principals, though woven with a dramatic script as well. Unfortunately, some of the "science" is a bit over the top, as you'll see below. If you haven't seen it, I suppose I'll recommend it, though with some BIG caveats - in part because I'm a fan of thought-provoking and discussion provoking works. This is one of those. On the other hand, I put off watching this for some time, based on some of the solidly reasoned reviews I'd read online. Skim through some reviews of the film on Amazon or Netflix - you'll see what I mean. Nonetheless, the basic theme is this. Modern quantum physics demonstrates that we know far less about the universe than we thought we did a few short years ago. So far so good, as in fact followers of String Theory and other emergent ideas in physics will tell you that the theory calls for something like eleven dimensions. Eleven dimensions? Yup - you could actually be living in multiple realities as we speak. What happens to the matter and mass that disappears from our dimension in a black hole? Clearly there is much to the universe that we don't understand, and even much about our existence, consciousness, and world that we don't understand either. Where the movie lost me, was in some crazy, new-age spirituality and mystical beliefs that are clearly in opposition to the laws of science as we understand them. As the great James Randi is fond of saying in response to claims of abilities that fall outside the laws of physics here on earth, let's test this thing and see if what you claim is true. If it is, not only will you get Randi's $1 Million prize, but probably another cool million as part of your Nobel Prize for redefining our understanding of science. That seems a pretty solid motivation to put your abilities where your mouth is to me. In fact, I thought it would be fun to check out www.randi.org to see if anyone had posted other information about What The Bleep Do We Know. Great resource that it is, I shouldn't have been surprised to find quite a lot. I'll quote one pertinent excerpt here:
Quite a testimonial from an insider, eh? I recommend searching the forums at www.randi.org for "What the Bleep" and reading more. http://www.randi.org/jr/052005la.html As always, when it comes to movies, communication, and modern information - it's "buyer beware." And with all that said, I still say, watch the movie! What the heck, you might just get some great dinner conversation out of the deal! |
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