What the Bleep do we Know?
What The Bleep Official Website
After viewing the movie, I have come to believe it was an incredibly inspirational movie for me. I have been thinking of persuing the study of physics later in life and this movie has made me want to continue to do so.
Brief Summary:
What the Bleep Do We Know is an exciting movie that attempts to make known much of the new knowledge and ideas that modern science has been able to offer, mostly from a view through Quantum Physics. The movie explores the inner workings of the human body, and how our emotions affect everyday life. What the Bleep uses a single protaganist thrown into a crisis in her life where she begins to question her very exitence, some of the asnwers she comes up with come out of her journey into the strange world of quantum mechanics.The movie used brilliant animations to make the explanations a bit easier for the average person to understand. By using animations of individual cells within the body, the movie was able to show interactions of our brain and cells quite easily. The animations used in the movie were created in part with Lost Boys Studios , Atomic - VFX , and also Mr XFX . Togetehr these companie came together to make the brilliant animations of the movie come to life. I would recommend checking out their websites if you are interested in computer animation.
Quotes from the movie and website that I found important—
"The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!"
- Lord Byron
"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature."
- Stephen W. Hawking
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
- Galileo Galilei
"...perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself."
- Plato
"Know Thyself." - Socrates
Water Crystal Experiment
I found the water crystal experiment the be incredibly interesting. This section of the movie was about an experiment a scientist did to study the effects of emotions on water. The scientist took bottles of pure distilled water and labeled them with different phrases such as "Thank You" and "You Make Me Sick". Then the scientist allowed the bottles to sit over night and examined them in the morning. The results were very peculier, the water crystals were different shapes for different emotions. Now whether this is just coincidence or some natural phenomenon I don't know but it is a very interesting study none the less.
For more information check the what the bleep website section on the water crystals.
Physicists:
Stephen Hawking: Author of A Brief History of Time
William Tiller: Studied Freezing and Crystalization
Amit Goswami: Theoretical Nuclear Physicist
More Information
I would recommend the following sources for more information on these topics:
Wikipedia ... Doing a quick search with this free encyclodpedia online will provide a number of links for topics and often show you closely related topics.
Google Physics Group ... this website offers numerous physics dicussion topics from various people around the world.
Google Philosphy Group ... This google group offers numerous topics relating to science and philoshophy with dicussions from people around the world.
Three Books that I would deffinately recconmend reading if you are interested in philosphy and physics are : A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking; this is a good book for anyone to read about the origns of the universe andother modern physics topics. and also by Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell ; this is another book of Hawking's that deals with modern colmological topics such as the Big Bang and String Theory.. finally, Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge by Neils Bohr... This book conatins many ideas about Quantum Physics and human nature similar to those found in the what the bleep movie