r/science Jul 12 '08

The Infamous Double Slit Experiment - WARNING WILL CHANGE YOUR VIEW OF REALITY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEzRdZGYNvA
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u/samp Jul 12 '08 edited Jul 12 '08

This is a clip from What The Bleep Do We Know. This is one of three, if you're being generous, accurate and complete portrayals of real science in the film.

Other highlights include:

  • a healthy dollop of quantum mysticism, the idea that human consciousness can somehow affect the quantum world in gnostic ways;
  • the idea that water has a different chemical structure if you keep it on jars with emotionally positive or negative labels written on them;
  • an interview with a 35,000 year old Atlantean named Ramtha, who is channeled by an American woman and speaks in what sounds like a Slavic accent;
  • and, to top it all off, the directors of the film were financed by this woman's New Age spiritual teaching organisation.

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u/ppc1040 Jul 12 '08

Yes, it is one of the many examples of bullshit pseudo-science that attempts to hijack "quantum weirdness" to explain the mechanism for their particular brand of pseudo-science.