You’re absolutely right that the objective argument should win the day, and that considerations of how many share the opinon, or whether the person putting the counter argument is a charlatan or not should be secondary.

I’m very happy to say that the outcome of such an objective examination is that most of what is suggested in this film as being fact is simply unverified conjecture and anecdote. Such things have been deliberately allowed by the filmmakers to be taken by gullible people as true facts. This is wrong. Very wrong. No amount of getting into the swimming pool slowly or whatever is going to change that.

Best,

-cvj

In my limited consideration, science is the discovery and the understanding of the world around us through observation where observation is limited to point of view and reference. When people take science to a level that mimics the shackles of black and white it becomes an abomination of what science is.

Another argument that is disconcerting is, “hey there are more of us than there are of you therefore we’re right.” Hmmm. Can you think of anytime in the past where this argument was used? How about the earth being the center of the universe?

It is by mere chance that I stumbled across this blog, but I am glad I did. I think for some people the movie may have been too much, too fast. For those persons I empathize, when I was young, my mother would take about 30 minutes or so to actually get into the swimming pool on a very hot summer’s day. It was her understanding she had to slowly acclimate, first one foot, then the other, etc. She couldn’t handle the sudden change. It would make her experience unpleasant and cause her to change her point of view when it came to pools. I think if you are up to the challenge then maybe you could do the same thing with this movie “What the Bleep.” Just slowly get into it, watch a little bit then think about, ask around, research, and then comeback to it.

So how can you observe something you already know; especially you being something as dynamic as a human?

You know the movie is in trouble when one of the more “reasonable” sounding scientists is Fred Alan Wofle. I discovered his book “Star Wave” when I was in college, and a few other Modern Physics sat around laughing at it. (Flake-o-rama.) Just reading the index is fun, finding “evil” a few lines below “eigenstate”.

-Rob

-cvj

Of course, the movie very quickly ventures into la-la land and says vastly, vastly wrong things. The fundamental mistake of the movie seems to be making the leap from the stochastic nature of quantum mechanics (we can’t predict exactly which eigenstate we will measure when we measure a system that’s in an overlap of states) into the conclusion that, therefore, we get to choose what state the system will go into. Utter poo!

Also, the concluding notion from the movie that you can help your own psychological state by affirming and not getting down on yourself also isn’t bunk… but doesn’t have anything to do with fundamental quantum physics. It has more to do with human psychology.

-Rob