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Disappointing! Don't be fooled!
As a science student, I was extremely excited when I first saw the fliers for "What the Bleep..." Quantum physics illustrates some of the most mysterious and mind-blowing characteristics of our universe and I thought this movie was going to be about Quantum physics.
I would hardly call this a movie about Quantum physics. Full of new age philosophies and "experts" fit for cable access, "What the bleep..." was a huge disappointment. I do not claim to know everything about this topic (as there is so much to learn), but I know the difference between science and pseudoscience.
This movie felt like one long introduction for a movie about Quantum physics--"experts" kept explaining how amazing and weird quantum physics is without ever actually explaining it! There was no mention of the double-slit experiments, Schrödinger's cat, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, etc.
I guess I was expecting something of "Nova" quality and instead, got a bunch of new age hippies talking about "creating your own reality, blah blah."
Perhaps this is a step in the right direction towards science awareness. For future refrence, for people thinking about making a science-themed movie/documentary: the truth is a lot more amazing and weird and mind-blowing than the pseudoscience, not to mention more important.
April 2005 · Movies and TV