new movie...

[hugme]

I haven't heard anything about this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/

but I want to go see it... anyone want to go with me? I can understand if you don't 99% of the population is bored by quantum machanics...

Comments

I'd love to go

[bludmewn.livejournal.com]

I'd love to accompany you as long as you can tell me what the hell's going on.

[moonbird.livejournal.com]

Heh... you'd have probably enjoyed "Primer" the other night.

From Roger Ebert's Movie Answer Man column....

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

Sept 19, 2004
Q. I've read your review of "What the #$*! Do We Know?," a film that attempts to explain some of the more interesting aspects of quantum physics. These explanations are given by what you describe as "experts" in the field.

I am a professor of physics at the University of Massachusetts, doing research in the field of experimental particle physics. I glanced at the cast names and did not recognize any of them as leading names in the field of theoretical particle physics or cosmology. I even searched for their names using the search engine of the High Energy Physics database, which references authors of papers appearing in the leading journals of the field. Nothing came up.

I suspect that the persons appearing in the film are not physicists who have a rigorous training in the very mathematical and non-metaphysical theory of quantum mechanics. If this is indeed the case, then I warn you that the content of the film may have little or nothing to do with the actual theory of quantum mechanics.

Carlo Dallapiccola, Amherst, Mass.


A.(Ebert) Since the expert who made the most sense to me was JZ Knight, who claims to be channeling Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old mystical sage from the lost continent of Atlantis, this does not come as a shock.


October 3, 2004
Q. While the film "What the #$*! Do We Know!?" parades itself as a tell-all about quantum physics, it turns out that it's actually a 111-minute infomercial for ... that's right, the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. In fact, the three filmmakers, [William] Arntz, [Betsy] Chasse and [Mark] Vicente, are all devotees of Ramtha.

There's little to no accurate science in the film, and, as a physicist pointed out recently in your Answer Man column, the individuals who are quoted are pretty far from qualified experts on the field of quantum mechanics. Case in point: One of the persons expounding on causality and quantum physics (Dispenza) is a chiropractor. The film's sole purpose appears to be to promote the ideology of the Ramtha School of Enlightenment. A quick browse through their Web site will clearly demonstrate that the film's pseudoscientific nonsense comes straight from the teachings of the RSE.

Rubin Safaya, Edina, Minn.

A.(Ebert) Several other readers also unmasked the documentary as a hoax. I knew there had to be something fishy when the expert who made the most sense was channeling a 35,000-year-old seer from Atlantis.

[newbiechicktech.livejournal.com]

I saw it in an advanced screening some time ago. Personally, I thought it was a great film. It definately isn't for people looking on a documentary about quatumn mechanics as a science. It really needs to be approached from the philosophy/possibilty kind of mind set.

Tell me what you think when you see it!

[melonaise.livejournal.com]

I saw it on the marquee at a theater here, but I had no idea what it was about.

[starphoenix.livejournal.com]

When are you going? (yeah yeah....I know I'm still catching up from when I was gone) I might be interested but I have to scare up some cash first.

[hugs.livejournal.com]

drop me an e-mail and I need to chat with you anyway... lj@hugme.org