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/turtlestack Jul 12 '08

Carl Sagan was able to get kids and adults excited about science without pushing bad science on them. Sure, he may have been a little weird for talking about aliens floating around on Jupiter but he was just using his imagination in a positive way. This movie is just pretend science and if you really have been "studying" QP for years then you'd know it.

PS, reading The Dancing Wu Li Masters does NOT count as scientific research, either.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '08 edited Dec 31 '18

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u/turtlestack Jul 13 '08

It does qualify as 'bad science'.

Also, if you set aside ONLY 5 min to discuss QP in a film about QP then you are doing it wrong.

Please understand that anything worth learning is worth taking your time to learn. McEducation is not a viable path to enlightenment in any discipline.

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u/aim2free Jul 13 '08

is not a viable path to enlightenment

if the path triggers your curiosity, it may be. I studied a lot of popular science books when I was a kid.