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”I’ve written 11 books on quantum physics and I’ll bet that 10 years from now sir, you will believe things that
you regard today as preposterous …”
And with that Dr. Fred Alan Wolf silenced a critic’s $20,000 challenge during his Q&A at the London Premiere of “What The Bleep.”
The voice from the audience (some say it was another scientist, but that was never confirmed) had challenged Wolf by stating, “I find the science very disturbing, full of half half-truths and misrepresentations. And I suspect the majority of working physicists will find the film offensive.”
Yet, not many of them did, at least not on the public record. As I always say, “Time will tell. It always does.”
We’ve all experienced the transition from dismissal to acceptance on many issues during our lifetime.
Certain Enough To Be Un-Certain?
What do you believe now that you dis-believed at some point in your past?
I used to believe that consciousness was separate from the outer world and that it certainly had no impact on events happening around me.
Now . . . I’m not so sure. And I’ve been willing to bend that rigidity of belief based on the new data (namely quantum science) that says you cannot separate consciousness from your reality. In quantum science it’s called The Observer Effect. And does make sense to extrapolate that if subatomic particles behave in this manner, and we are and our external world is composed of those particles — then the whole must behave according to it’s components.
That’s just reasoning it out from a scientific perspective.
But Dr. Wolf said he wasn’t too surprised by Imperial College response, since it is one of the last bastions of traditional, white-coated science for whom mind and body are two separate realms (and you can thank Descartes for that schism that has hobbled science for hundreds of years). In fact, he expected worse:
“I’m more surprised at how accepting people are of this stuff. Darwin and Newton are so strongly embedded in the architecture and the substructure of educational policies that you would think anybody that says God, spirituality or consciousness plays a role in the Universe would be crucified.”
“What’s interesting is how vehement people who respond in that way seem to be. I don’t think I’ve had a book published without being attacked with axes … These guys are almost religious in scientific dogma. But the real big brains like Stephen Hawking and Sir Roger Penrose. They don’t have any problem with this kind of thing, so why should pipsqueaks?”
Some of Wolf’s memorable phrases from the film:
- “The ultimate secret is not to be in the know, but in the mystery.”
- ”We’re mostly made not of atoms, but of mind.”
- “Whatever you think you are isn’t you.”
- “It’s all true. There are just different levels of truth.”
- “There is no out there independent of what’s going on in here” (this indicating the brain).
Quantum Action Figure?
“Rumors that Burger King will have a Fred Alan Wolf doll are not true,” joked William Arntz, Co-Director and Producer of “What The Bleep.”
But look at this, maybe not Burger King but someone’s running with the Dr. Quantum idea!
* = About Heisenberg Fridays. Each Friday’s post will be the one post where I can talk about whatever I want outside of the realms of marketing, sales, advertising or copywriting. More often than not, it will be about one of my favorite studies – the research into quantum mechanics and how consciousness influences reality.
So for most of the week you’ll be certain of the overall theme of my posts, but each Friday there will be that uncertainty about the topic. Thus my tip of the hat to Werner Heisenberg the creator of quantum mechanics’ Uncertainty Principle.
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