The film “What the bleep do we know?” is coming out in the UK later this week, and already I’m fed up with it. It’s being marketed as some sort of introduction to quantum theory, but all that I read both in the newspapers, online or on the radio make me deeply suspicious that it’s anything but some bumped up hokey-pokey new age rubbish.
Just clicking about the website and there is enough to concern me, with such quotes as “Water represents the interface between the 4th dimension in which we live and the 5th dimensional sphere of our soul“, and contributing authors with titles such as The Yoga of Time Travel and The Spiritual Universe. Whilst thinking positively is obviously a Good Thing(tm) to do, this particular excerpt from the film strikes me as just a little over-enthusiastic, and gives me all the information I need in confirming my fears that this film is not worth bothering with.
From all that I can see, many of the contributors are respectable scientists working on some of the interesting questions about the nature of consciousness, and no doubt investigating complex parts of the puzzling world of quantum mechanics. But all their efforts together in this film’s publicity seem to me to be nothing more than new age mumbo-jumbo borrowing for a complex field of physics to push some strange agenda that might work well in the United States, but I suspect will bomb over here.
Anybody interested in science, particularly Quantum mechanics, would do much better to pick up an introductory book on the subject (such as the excellent In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat, by John Gribbin) and exercise their mind and curiosity in a more constructive way, rather than being spoon fed some dressed up drivel in a two hour cinema sitting.
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