What the Bleep are ya all Upset About The movie is a self described spiritual film a typical new age hodgepodge of the usual fun New Age quantum hoopla So Is it trying to force it s way into high school physics curricula Junior high school elementary school Nursing homes Police academies Breakfast cereals What s the big bleepin deal How bout this my fellow eggheads What does the average viewer of this film wind up knowing about quantum mechanics or neurology or whatever after leaving this film On average nothing Which is exactly what the average person on the street POTS for you Lieber enthusiasts knows anyway So I ask yawhose fault is that if we must assign blame and point fingers I ll tell ya thisyou can no more blame that on Ramtha than you can on Mothra However it would be perfectly fair to point a few fingers and toes at the perfectly lame state of science education in our land Oh you say that s true and it s the evil Bush s fault Think again Where exactly are the scientists who should be fighting this battle with the fervor of the great crusades of human history given that many of you seem to think that a movie such as this harkens the end of snivelization as we know it Take a look at the very many popular tomes on quantum mechanics on the shelves and what do you see Simple straight ahead humble elucidations of concepts that anyone can get a handle on if properly motivated But nooooooooooooo we get wannabe science celebrity rock stars further muddying the muck with tales of Wild Quantum Wierdness That Is SO Weird We ll give you Some Watered Down Version But Only Us SMART GUYS women eggheads like Janna Levin and Lisa Randall are a lot easier to take in this respect can REAAALY Get IT and that dude from the NY Planetarium too is better too So relax people have some fun get down with your 50 000 year old bad selves such a wickedly great post I had to create a separate section for comments This goes into my hopper as one of the finest posts I ve seen on Wikipedia But I do have a complaint about the knock on us guys Some of the smart ones get married to really hot genius gals like Joel Primack s wife Nancy Abrams and they go off and write really fun stuff together about Lurianic Kabbalah and such Or Heinz Pagels and his hottie Yale divinity scholar wife Elaine Pagels What I wouldn t give to see transcripts of thier pillow talk Whoooo can t go there Good call WNDL42 Another way to put this in perspective this article was viewed a whopping 630 times in January Now that might seem like a whole lot until you consider that 625 of those views were undoubtedly by y all edit warriors Meanwhile a humble and uncontroversial article about an old pioneer road in Oregon racked up 746 views So yeah cool it guys Stop wasting all the pixels Yup this has to be the biggest tempest in the smallest teapot that I ve ever seen The idea that any rational person could read ANY of these versions and conclude that the science in this film is accurate is ludicrous While I tend to agree that the amount of effort put into this article has been out of proportion to its importance it doesn t seem reasonable to me to say Well the film isn t important so we can let the article about it be bad Some of the leads above are pretty short and sweet and don t give any false credence to the film I really don t understand why people fight for versions that are artificially favorable towards the film If we simply put out lead that summarized the view of the film taken by reliable sources it comes out pretty negative If people would accept that write the lead that way and stop trying to portray new ageism and mysticism as credible the argument would be over Try to assume a little good faith no one is trying to skew this article to an artifically favorable view All this focus on the purported intent and