What the Bleep!?: Down the Rabbit Hole Page #5

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is not this clockwork thing...

but it's more like an organism.

It's a highly interconnected

organismic thing of some type...

which extends through space and time.

In that kind of environment, what

I think and the way that I behave...

has a much greater impact, not only on

myself, but on the rest of the world...

than it would if it

was a classical world.

So, from a very basic point of view

having to do with morals and ethics...

what I think affects the world.

That's

- I mean, in a sense, that's really the key...

for why a worldview change is important.

Let's talk about the subatomic world.

And then we'll talk about what

it's telling us about reality.

The first thing I want to tell

you about the subatomic world...

is it's totally a fantasy

created by mad physicists...

trying to figure out what the heck is going

on when they do these little experiments.

By little experiments, I mean big energy

in little spaces and little pieces of time.

It gets pretty nutty

at that realm of things.

And so subatomic physics was invented

to try to figure that all out.

We need a new science down there.

It's called quantum physics, and

it is subject to a whole range...

of debatable hypotheses,

thoughts, feelings, intuitions...

as to what the heck is really going on.

So, on the one hand, you had a theory...

which from the conceptual

standpoint, was profoundly puzzling...

and on the other hand, from

the practical standpoint...

was vastly more successful than

anything we had ever seen before.

This is the kind of situation

that produces the tension...

that all of the investigations of

- foundations of quantum mechanics...

are feeding off of since then.

Because on the one hand, this is a-

this is an acutely

paradoxical, puzzling...

conceptually confusing theory.

On the other hand, we have

no option along the lines...

of throwing it out or neglecting it...

because it is the most

powerful proven tool...

for predicting the behaviors of physical

systems that we have ever had in our hands.

The universe is very strange. There seem to

be two sets of laws that govern the universe.

In our everyday classical world, meaning

roughly our size and timescales...

things are described by

Newton's laws of motion...

set down hundreds and

hundreds of years ago.

And they work very well for billiard

balls and cannonballs and gravity.

However, when we get

down to a small scale...

when we get down to,

say, the level of atoms...

a different set of laws take over.

These are the quantum laws,

quantum theory, quantum mechanics.

And at that level...

particles may be in multiple

places at the same time.

They may behave as waves smeared

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